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‖ incipit|ˈɪnsɪpɪt|
The L. word incipit = [here] beginneth, used by mediæval scribes in indicating the beginning of a new treatise, poem, division, etc. in a Latin or (sometimes) English MS.; hence, as n. The beginning or first words or lines of a treatise or poem in a MS. Cf. explicit.
[1377Langl. P. Pl. B, Incipit liber de Petro Plowman.] 1897Dublin Rev. Oct. 473 The contents of each volume are fully given, for the most part with incipits and explicits. 1963[see explicit b]. 1973Times 2 Nov. 6/1 The incipits, or titular opening phrases, of more than 200 literary works current in Sumer in the early second millennium b.c. |