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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