Stultifera nauis : Narragonice [pro]fectionis nunq[uam] satis laudata nauis / per Sebastianu[m] Brant: vernaculo vulgari[que] sermone & rhythmo [pro] cu[n]cto[rum] mortalium fatuitatis semitas effugere cupie[n]tiu[m] directione, speculo, co[m]modo[que] & salute: pro[que] inertis ignau[ae][que] stultitici[ae] [per]petua infamia, execratione, & confutatione nu[per] fabricata: Atq[ue] iampridem per lacobum Locher, cognome[n]to Philomusum: Su[ae]uu[m]: in latinu[m] traducta eloquiu[m]: & per Sebastianu[m] Brant: denuo sedulo[que] reuisa: foelici exorditur principio.

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Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521, Stultifera nauis , anno salutis no[str][ae] millesimo quadringentesimononagesimoseptimo kalendis Martiis [1 March 1497]

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Creator:: Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Title(s):: Stultifera nauis : Narragonice [pro]fectionis nunq[uam] satis laudata nauis / per Sebastianu[m] Brant: vernaculo vulgari[que] sermone & rhythmo [pro] cu[n]cto[rum] mortalium fatuitatis semitas effugere cupie[n]tiu[m] directione, speculo, co[m]modo[que] & salute: pro[que] inertis ignau[ae][que] stultitici[ae] [per]petua infamia, execratione, & confutatione nu[per] fabricata: Atq[ue] iampridem per lacobum Locher, cognome[n]to Philomusum: Su[ae]uu[m]: in latinu[m] traducta eloquiu[m]: & per Sebastianu[m] Brant: denuo sedulo[que] reuisa: foelici exorditur principio.
Additional Title(s):: Stultifera navis
Narrenschiff. Latin
Published/Created:: In laudatissima Germani[ae] vrbe Basiliensi : nu[per] o[per]a & [pro]motione Iohannis Bergman de Olpe, anno salutis no[str][ae] millesimo quadringentesimononagesimoseptimo kalendis Martiis [1 March 1497].
Physical Description:: CXXXXV, [3] leaves : 117 illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0826
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1305005
Classification:: Books
Notes:: BEIN Zi 7776: Imperfect: ff. 1-9, 11, 121-144, 146-148 wanting; of fol. 145 only the colophon, line 2 to the end, is preserved, and is pasted on blank leaf; slightly wormed. For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
On title page: "1497. Nihil sine causa. Io. de Olpe."
Translation of Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff (first published under title Das Narren Schyff, Basel : Johann Bergmann, 1494) by Jacob Locher; with additional introductory and laudatory verses and short prose pieces by both Locher and Brant.
First Latin edition.
Imprint from colophon, leaf CXXXXVb, which begins: Finis stultifere Nauis ...
On leaf 3a at end: "1497. NIHIL SINE CAVSA. OLPE."
Roman and gothic type (Proctor 7776); 30 lines. With foliation, initials, marginalia and signature marks; without catchwords. Publisher's device below colophon, leaf CXXXXVb, with lettering in scrollwork: NIHIL .SINE. .CAVSA. 1497. .IO. BERGMAN. .DE. OLPE.
Signatures: a-s⁸ t⁴.
Illustrations: 117 woodcuts, most repeated from the original edition in German (Basel, 1494). See Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, v. 5, entry 3567. 77 of the designs have been attributed to Albrecht Dürer. See: Albrecht Dürer : das druckgraphische Werk / bearbeitet von Rainer Schoch, Matthias Mende und Anna Scherbaum, c2001-c2004, v. 3, pages 86-87 and entries 266.1-266.77. Others are attributed to the Master of the Haintz-Narr, so called after the lettering in one of the prints (here: leaf XVa). Woodcut borders.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ib01086000
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3746
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 3, page 795 (IA. 37942)
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5054
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B1086
Harrisse, H. Bibliotheca americana vetustissima: additions, Add. 5
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 865
European Americana, 497/5
Knape, J. Sebastian Brant Bibliographie, D368
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3567
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0826: Imperfect: 21 leaves only: title leaf and leaves XIIII, XVI, XIX, XXVI, XL, XLV, XLVII, XLVIII, LIV, LX, LXII, LXIII, LXIV, LXVI, LXIX, CII, CIII, CXVI, and CXIX. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:: Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Folly -- Early works to 1800.
Folly -- Poetry.
Folly in art -- Early works to 1800.
Fools and jesters in art -- Early works to 1800.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:: Allegories.
Satirical literature.
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:: Locher, Jacob, 1471–1528, translator.
Bergmann, Johann, active 1494–1499, printer.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528, illustrator, attributed name.
Master of the Haintz-Narr, illustrator.
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