Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Incunabula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

INCUNA'BULA. Includes all the objects which constitute the furniture of a cradle (cunabula) and of the infant in it; viz. the mattress (pulvillus) on which it lays; the cradle bands which prevent it from falling out, themselves termed incunabula specially by Plautus (Truc. v. 13.); the swaddling clothes and bands (fasciae) with which it was enveloped; whence the same term is applied in a general sense for a cradle (Liv. iv. 36.), or a birth-place. Cic. Att. ii. 15.