Bladeren door het oudste boek. The Museum of Printing, North Andover, Mass. KBR : virtuele tentoonstelling een schat van incunabelen. Museum Plantin-Moretus: boekdrukkunst. Incunabula - Dawn of Western Printing. Let us now take a look at the characteristics of the incunabula that underwent the transition in design from manuscripts to printed books.
Incunabula were first printed in exactly the same style as manuscripts. Therefore, all of the characteristics that appeared in manuscripts were maintained in incunabula. These included the use of diverse typefaces according to genre and region, the use of contractions and abbreviations in sentences, frequent use of columns and marginal notes, and rubrication at the beginning of the chapter. The title page that is standard in all books today began to appear only in the 1480s. Until that time, the text in books began immediately after the title, which was referred to as the incipit. Gutenberg-Museum Mainz.