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| | Incipit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The idea of choosing a few words or a phrase or two, which would be placed on the spine of a book and its cover, developed slowly with the birth of printing, and the idea of a title page with a short title and subtitle came centuries later, replacing earlier, more verbose titles. |
 | | The modern use of standardized titles, combined with the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), have made the incipit obsolete as a tool for organizing information in libraries. |
 | | However, incipits are still used to refer to untitled poems and songs, such as Gregorian chants, operatic arias or the poetry of Emily Dickinson. |
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