Editing Incunable (section)

==Post-incunable==
Many incunabula are undated, needing complex bibliographical analysis to place them correctly. The post-incunabula period marks a time of development during which the printed book evolved fully as a mature artefact with a standard format.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Book Triumphant: Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |editor1-last=Walsby |editor1-first=Malcolm |editor2-last=Kemp |editor2-first=Graeme |publisher=Brill |year=2011 |page=viii |isbn=978-90-04-20723-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cysqnfvAUEAC&pg=PR7}}</ref> After about 1540 books tended to conform to a pattern that included the author, title-page, date, seller, and place of printing. This makes it much easier to identify any particular edition.{{sfn|Walsby|Kemp|2011|p=viii}}

As noted above, the ''end date'' for identifying a printed book as an incunable is convenient but was chosen arbitrarily; it does not reflect any notable developments in the printing process around the year 1500. Books printed for a number of years after 1500 continued to look much like incunables, with the notable exception of the small format books printed in [[italic type]] introduced by [[Aldus Manutius]] in 1501. The term '''post-incunable''' is sometimes used to refer to books printed "after 1500—how long after, the experts have not yet agreed."<ref>{{cite book |first1=John |last1=Carter |first2=Nicolas |last2=Barker |title=ABC for Book Collectors |url=http://www.ilab.org/download.php?object=documentation&id=29 |format=PDF |access-date=28 May 2010 |edition=8th |year=2004 |publisher=Oak Knoll Press and the British Library |location=New Castle, Del. |isbn=1-58456-112-2 |page=172 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121030905/https://www.ilab.org/download.php?object=documentation&id=29 |archive-date=21 November 2017 }} {{free access}}</ref> For books printed in England, the term generally covers 1501–1520, and for books printed in mainland [[Europe]], 1501–1540.{{sfn|Carter|Barker|2004|p=172}}

One notable example from this period is [[Hakob Meghapart]] (Hagop Meghapart), who in 1512 became the first known printer of Armenian books. Working in [[Venice]], he published ''[[Urbatagirk]]'' (''The Book of Friday'') and several other early Armenian printed works. His books retained characteristics of manuscript tradition, including red and black ink and decorative initials, aligning them stylistically with [[incunabula]] despite being [[post-incunable]] by definition.