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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Incunabula Collection at Stanford University, 1467-1500

Collection number:
Special Collections Various

Creator:
Stanford University Libraries

Extent:
178 volumes

Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Abstract:
The collection contains 178 volumes printing during the first fifty years after moveable type printing presses came into existence. These incunabula (literally "in the cradle") works demonstrate the evolution of printing conventions during the first few decades of the new technology.

Language:
English.

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