editio princeps
English edit
Etymology edit
From New Latin ēditiō prīnceps (“first edition”), 1800s.
Noun edit
editio princeps (plural editiones principes)
- (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; […]
Translations edit
first printed edition of a work previously only published as manuscript
|
See also edit
- incunabulum
- translatio princeps (“first translation”)
Further reading edit
- editio princeps on Wikipedia.Wikipedia