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What is an incunabulum?

What is an incunabulum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.
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It was printed around 1480, which makes it an incunabulum.
This is its most specific and precious treasure: several hundred travel diaries, from the incunabulum of Breidenbach to the present day.
His Defensio Curatorum was printed several times in the late fifteenth century and is the only work by an Irishman to be published as an incunabulum.
The metaphorical designation incunabulum means that it concerns printing elements, one sees which lying still in its cradle or in the diapers.
Conservation of two books covered with leather, of which an incunabulum.
So if you needed an incunabulum you had to know where it was — which basically meant you had to know someone who knew.

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