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Glossary

Glossary

This glossary explains the following terms.

1.Blind Printing (Blinddruck)
2.Block Book (Blockbuch)
3.Border Decoration (Umrahmung)
4.Broadside (Einblattdrucke)
5.Chain Line and Wire Line
6.Colophon (Kolophon)
7.Color Printing (Mehrfarbendruck)
8.Column (Kolumne)
9.Contractions and Abbreviations
10.Costeriana
11.Date Indication in the Julian Calendar
12.Designs for Manuscripts and Incunabula
13.Easter Sunday
14.Format
15.Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW)
16.Gothic Type
17.Hand Press (Druckpresse)
18.Head Title
19.Incipit and Explicit
20.Marginalia
21.Papyrus
22.Printer's Device (Signet)
23.Punch and Matrix
24.Quire (Lage)
25.Register
26.Roman Type
27.Rubrication
28.Title Page
29.Watermark (Wasserzeichen)
30.Woodcut Illustrations
31.Woodcut Initial

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Incunabula - Dawn of Western Printing

Chapter 1 What are Incunabula?
Chapter 2 Various Typefaces
Chapter 3 Printing and Book Designs
Chapter 4 Bookbinding and Decoration
Incunabula Collection

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