||Cu*nab"u*la (k?-n?b"?-l?), n. pl.
[L., a cradle, earliest abode, fr. cunae cradle.]
1. The earliest abode; original dwelling
place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human
race.
2. (Bibliography) The extant
copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were
printed in the 15th century.