Join us next Thursday, 18 January between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!
Drop in any time during this open house to view a selection of incunables held in the U-M Library’s Special Collections. These books are extraordinary witnesses of an exciting period of technical and artistic innovation in book history.
The term “incunable,” from the Latin “incunabulum” (pl. incunabula),” which originally meant “swaddling-clothes” or “cradle,” is now commonly used to refer to books produced in the fifteenth century, that is, from the appearance of the Gutenberg Bible in Mainz in 1454 up to 1501. We'll have a number of these early printed books out to explore during the event.
And be sure to check out the other Third Thursdays at the Library event, with selections from the Clark Library!