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What is an incipit?

What is an incipit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The first few words of a text, especially its first line.
  2. (music) The first few bars of a piece of music.
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In the absence of a title page, the text may be recognized, referred to, and recorded by its incipit.
Unfortunately, Matthew's incipit page is severely worn, appearing to have functioned as the manuscript's front cover for a number of years.
The rest of the incipit words are written in gold leaf on a coloured background.
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, incipit Vita Nova.
Thus, you'll find here not only the beginning of a piece, i.e. the incipit, but also secondary themes and motifs, and often several of them in a single movement.
Columbus has been fighting a major bedbug infestation for years, and enacted a bedbug oversight committee to marshal forces to fight this incipit outbreak.

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