Incunabula - incunabula

Japanese: インキュナブラ - いんきゅなぶら（英語表記）incunabula

A general term for printed books published in Europe in the 15th century (more precisely, between the 1450s, when movable type printing was invented, and December 31, 1500). It is also called the cradle or early publication period. They used type that imitated the font of manuscripts, and were sometimes printed on vellum as well as paper, and were sometimes colored like manuscripts. The word comes from the Latin word cunabula, which means cradle, and it was only in the second half of the 18th century that it came to mean printed book. The British Library's Incunabua Short Title Catalogue is a comprehensive catalog of incunabula. According to this catalog, the total number of incunabula is estimated to be about 40,000, of which about 30,000 titles currently exist, two-thirds of which are written in Latin. The German Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke began compilation in 1925, but was suspended during World War II. Publication resumed in 1978 and is still ongoing.

Source: Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 4th Edition Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 5th Edition About Information

Japanese:

15世紀（厳密には活版印刷術の発明された1450年代から1500年12月31日までの間）にヨーロッパで刊行された活字本の総称．揺籃期本，初期刊本ともいう．写本の字体を模倣した活字が使われ，紙のほか獣皮紙も使用され，さらに写本のような彩色をほどこすこともあった．語源は，ゆりかごを意味するラテン語cunabulaで，印刷本の意味を表すようになったのは18世紀後半になってからである．インキュナブラの総合的な目録としては英国図書館のIncunabua Short Title Catalogueがある．この目録によれば，インキュナブラの総数は約4万と推定され，約3万点が現存し，そのうち3分の2はラテン語の著作である．また，ドイツのGesamtkatalog der Wiegendruckeは1925年に編纂が開始されたが，第二次大戦で中断された後，1978年になって刊行が再開，現在も刊行中である．

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