Etymology

Noun

1. A book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.
   • 2004, Luisa Graves (translator), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (author), The Shadow of the Wind,

     Something about him reminded me of one of those figures from old-fashioned playing cards or the sort used by fortune-tellers, a print straight from the pages of an incunabulum: his presence was both funereal and incandescent, like a curse dressed in its Sunday best.

Usage notes

• This word is better known, and more widely used, in its plural form, .