Drop in any time during this open house to view a selection of incunables held in the U-M Library’s Special Collections. These books are extraordinary witnesses of an exciting period of technical and artistic innovation in book history.

The term “incunable,” from the Latin “incunabulum” (pl. incunabula),” which originally meant “swaddling-clothes” or “cradle,” is now commonly used to refer to books produced in the fifteenth century, that is, from the appearance of the Gutenberg Bible in Mainz in 1454 up to 1501.

Join us for this Third Thursdays at the Library series, where curators share highlights from the library's vast collections.