Talk:Incunabulum
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About a third of the incunabula that are preserved today belong to the Vatican Library.
This statement is at best ambiguous. Surely the Vatican Library does not possess about a third of the preserved copies of books printed before 1500.
What is meant is perhaps that the Vatican has copies of about a third of the known incunabula.
Clarification by an expert is desirable.
Sebastjan
# of incunabula Institution
4600 Cambridge University Library 2000 Koninklijke Bibliotheek 12,500 British Library 3100 + 425 at Yale University (Beinecke + others) 4500 John Rylands University Library 280 McGill University Libraries 1800 Harvard University 8000 BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA
--seems hard to get exact figures but they don't seem like they are going to match that statement... -- Someone else 08:40 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)
What about books printed on 1500? That's not clear from the article. -- Error