incunable

genre of publication, book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe
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incunable

Summary

incunable ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (855 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • incunable is a type of printed matter[2].
  • incunable is a type of broadside ballad[3].
  • incunable is a type of pamphlet[4].
  • incunable is a type of book[5].
  • incunable is a type of version, edition or translation[6].
  • incunable's Commons category is recorded as Incunabula[7].
  • incunable's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Incunabula[8].
  • incunable's Commons gallery is recorded as Incunabula[9].
  • incunable's location of creation is recorded as Europe[10].
  • incunable's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11].
  • incunable's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[12].
  • incunable's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • incunable's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • incunable's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • incunable's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • incunable's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'la', 'text': 'incunabula'}[17].
  • incunable's history of topic is recorded as timeline[18].
  • incunable's has list is recorded as list of printers of incunabula[19].
  • incunable's studied by is recorded as incunabula studies[20].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include printed matter[2], broadside ballad[3], pamphlet[4], book[5], and version, edition or translation[6].

Why It Matters

incunable ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (855 views/month).[1] incunable has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] incunable is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list list of printers of incunabula
    History of topic timeline
    Studied by incunabula studies
    Aliases
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6527, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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