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incunabulum
in-kyuh-NA-byuh-luhm
noun
a book published before 1500; an artifact from an early age
1935Clark Ashton SmithThe Treader of the Dust...he found this copy on the shelves of a dealer in old manuscripts and incunabula.1968Harlan EllisonLove Ain't Nothing But Sex MisspelledI wandered back to the 'obscure stuff and incunabula' section, pretending to look for a book…1995Gregory MaguireWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the WestYou can protect me when I go out of here with my Grimmerie, my book of magicks, my Malleus Maleficarum, my mesmerizing incunabulum, my codex of scarabee, fylfot and gammadion, my text thaumaturgical.'

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