📚 Incunabula

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books printed before 1501: the first industry’s output, catalogued and hunted by the millions since.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject incunabula in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
La Celestina	Fernando de Rojas	1899	94
Narrenschiff	Sebastian Brant	1497	47
Martyrology	Catholic Church	1499	43
Decretum	Gratian	1471	31
Rare books	Davis & Orioli (Firm)	1954	29
Rationale divinorum officiorum	Guillaume Durand	1459	27
Western manuscripts and miniatures	Sotheby & Co. (London, England)	1985	27
Early illustrated books	A. W. Pollard	1893	23
Apologeticum	Tertullian	1494	20
The churle and the byrde	John Lydgate	1497	14
An essay on colophons	A. W. Pollard	1905	14
[Decretum]	Gratian	—	12
The boke of Saint Albans	Juliana Berners	1800	10
Dorot ha-rishonim	Isaac Halevy	1897	10
Rare and valuable books	E.P. Goldschmidt & Co.	1934	10
Repertorium bibliographicum	Ludwig Hain	1826	9
Fifteenth century English books	E. Gordon Duff	1917	9
Old science and medicine	E.P. Goldschmidt & Co.	1936	9
Early English printed books in the University Library, Cambridge (1475 to 1640)	Cambridge University Library.	1900	7
Postilla super totam Bibliam	Nicholas of Lyra	1471	6
Ehebüchlein	Albrecht von Eyb	1472	6
Ars minor	Aelius Donatus	1485	6
Fifteenth-century books	Peddie, Robert Alexander	1913	6
Bibliografía de la lengua valenciana	José Ribelles Comín	1915	6
Buch der Natur	Konrad von Megenberg	1475	5
Ars moriendi	Edward Williams Byron Nicholson	1891	5
Early printed books	E. Gordon Duff	1893	5
Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum	Walter Arthur Copinger	1895	5
Supplement zu Hain und Panzer	Konrad Burger	1908	5
Gothic & renaissance bookbindings	Ernst Philip Goldschmidt	1928	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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