# editio princeps

> in classical scholarship, first printed edition of a work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts and that was written before the invention of printing (letterpress printing was invented in Europe around 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg)

**Wikidata**: [Q1249682](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1249682)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editio_princeps)  
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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013