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Incunables

The word incunable derives from incunabula, Latin for "cradle", and signifies printed books produced during the first decades of movable type printing in Europe, around 1450 to 1500.

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Incunables at Umeå University Library

The incunables at the library are presented in the list below. The majority of these came to the library through the acquisition of Professor Olof Östergren’s book collection in 1968.

All copies have been digitised.

  1. Augustinus, Aurelius, Expositio evangelii secundum Johannem. [Basel]: Johann Amerbach, [not after 1491]. 406 s. Proveniens: O. Östergren
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:rara-1412
  2. Biblia latina. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, [not after 1493]. 401 bl. Proveniens: O. Östergren
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:rara-1471
  3. Strabon, Geographia, libri XVI (Tr: Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas). Ed: Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria. [Treviso]: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 1480. 637 s. Proveniens: O. Östergren
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:rara-1484
  4. Augustinus, Aurelius, Opuscula. Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1491. 253 bl. Proveniens: O. Östergren
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:rara-1485
  5. Claudianus, Opera. Ed: Thaddaeus Ugoletus. Parma: Angelus Ugoletus, 1493. Proveniens: O. Östergren
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:rara-1413
  6. Bernhard av Clairvaux, De consideratione. Add: De conflictu civitatis Babylon et Jerusalem [Pseudo- Bernardus (GW)]. Liber Cypriani de duodecim abusionum gradibus [Pseudo- Aurelius Augustinus (GW)]. [Augsburg]: Anton Sorg, [about 1475-1477]. Proveniens: O. Östergren
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:rara-1414
  7. Bernhard av Clairvaux, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et De diversis. [Speyer]: Peter Drach, [after 31 Aug. 1481, not after 1482]. Proveniens: Sundsvalls stadsbibliotek
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:rara-1487

 

Find more incunables

Incunables are now considered rare. The extant copies held at various libraries can be searched in, for example, the Swedish national union catalog Libris or the international British Library Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.

Libris

British Library Incunabula Short Title Catalogue

Latest update: 2024-01-30