Meaning of editio princeps | Babel Free

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The first printed edition of a work previously only published in manuscript form.

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“A caller interrupted me yesterday, a most persistent fellow and a dangerous one to the purse of the tyro collector of Americana, though not to me. He was a man of some pretence to classic education, and superficially versed in lore of title, date⟳, and editio princeps.”

“The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain⟳ the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]”

“If the editio princeps was an attempt⟳ to create⟳ an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.”

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