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Incunables
The Bodleian Library houses the largest collection of pre-1500 printed books in a university library, and the fifth largest collection of incunabula in any library in the world: 5623 editions in 6755 copies.
- Online access: A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (now Bod-Inc online)
- Printed catalogue available in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room (shelfmark: R.Bibl. 26.3/BOD)
- Orders can be placed via SOLO.
- Blockbooks are available online at Digital.Bodleian.
Information about the history of the Bodleian’s incunable collections, their housing, and cataloguing may be found in Alan Coates, ‘The Bodleian Library and its Incunabula’.