editio princeps

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Etymology

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From New Latin ēditiō prīnceps (first edition), 1800s.

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editio princeps (plural editiones principes)

  1. (humanities, printing) The first printed edition of a work previously only published in manuscript form.
    • 1903, Mabel Osgood Wright, People of the Whirlpool[1]:
      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.
    • 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:
      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; []
    • 2007, Terence Bailey, Alma Colk Santosuosso, editors, Music in Medieval Europe [] , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 199:
      If the editio princeps was an attempt to create an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.

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