Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521, Stultifera nauis , anno salutis nostre Mccccxcvij kale[n]dis Iunij [1 June 1497]
- Title(s):
- Stultifera nauis : Narragonice [pro]fectio[n]is nunq[uam] satis laudata nauis / per Sebastianum Bra[n]t: vernaculo vulgari[que] sermo[n]e & rythmo pro cu[n]cto[rum] mortaliu[m] fatuitatis semitas effugere cupie[n]tiu[m] directio[n]e, speculo, co[m]modo[que] & salute: pro[que] inertis ignaue[que] stultiticie [per]petua infamia, execrato[n]e, et co[n]futato[n]e, nu[per] fabricata: atq[ue] ia[m] pridem per Iacobu[m] Locher cognome[n]to Philomusum: Sueuu[m]: in latinu[m] traducta eloquiu[m]: & per Sebastinu[m] Brant: denuo sedulo[que] reuisa: f[ae]lici exordit[ur] principio.
- Additional Title(s):
Stultifera navis
In large type above title page woodcut: Nauis stultoru[m]
Narragonice profectionis nunquam satis laudata nauis
Navis stultorum
Narragonica navis
Narrenschiff. Latin- Published/Created:
- Imp[re]ssu[m] in i[m]p[er]iali ac vrbe libera Arge[n]tina [Strasbourg] : per magistru[m] Ioanne[m] Gruninge[r], anno salutis nostre Mccccxcvij kale[n]dis Iunij [1 June 1497]
- Physical Description:
- 116 [that is, 112] leaves : 118 illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0827Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1316606
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN 1972 165: Imperfect: ff. 38-39, 57-58, 75, 86-90, 103-104 and 107-108 wanting; upper corner of fol. 9 and lower corner of fol. 65 wanting; top margins bled. For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
In verse.
Translation of Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff (first published under title Das Narren Schyff, Basel : Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1494) by Jacob Locher; with additional introductory and laudatory verses and short prose pieces by both Locher and Brant.
First published Basel : J. Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March 1497. The present edition is "A reprint of the Basel edition of 1 March 1497 ... with different woodcuts"--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.
Imprint from colophon, which begins: Finis Narragonice nauis [per] Sebastianu[m] Brant vulgari sermone theutonico [quo]nda[m] fabricate ...
Signatures: A⁶ B-I⁶·⁴ K-T⁴·⁶ V⁴ x-y⁶.
Errors in foliation: numbers 21-22, 33-34 omitted; leaves 5, 6, 94 misnumbered 7, 5, 64 respectively.
Roman and gothic type (Proctor 480); 35-40 lines. With foliation, headlines (giving titles of sections), side notes and signature marks; without catchwords. A few initial spaces, with guide letters.
Illustrations: 118 woodcuts (one on title page), chiefly half-page, including many repeats. According to Kristeller (cited below), 56 of the 78 different compositions were printed from the blocks of Grüninger's interpolated German edition of 1494 or 1495; the other 22 were presumably new in this edition. All were copied rather freely, sometimes in reverse, from the woodcuts of the editions published by Bergmann de Olpe at Basel in 1494 (German) and 1497 (Latin). Schramm (cited below) reproduces 72 cuts from Grüninger's three German editions. 78 of the original designs in Bergmann's editions 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 266.1-266.78. Others are attributed to the Master of the Haintz-Narr, so called after the lettering in one of the prints.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ib01089000
Universal short title catalogue, 743660
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, B-819
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, B-509
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 1, page 112 (IA. 1459)
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 180
European Americana, entry 497/8
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5057
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1089
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, *3749
Knape, J. Sebastian Brant Bibliographie, D371
Kristeller, P. Strassburger Bücher-Illustration im XV. und im Anfange des XVI. Jahrhunderts, entry 74
Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, 2821
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 480
Schmidt, C. Répertoire bibliographique strasbourgeois jusque vers 1530, v. 1, page 12, no. 30
Schramm, A. Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke, v. 20, pages 4, 23, plates 32-41, figures 168-239
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, v. 5, entry 3570
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0827: Imperfect: 16 leaves only: title leaf and leaves 15, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 56, 62, 70, 74, 75, 95, 96, 97, and 101. 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:
- Woodcuts -- Germany -- 15th century.
Woodcuts -- France -- 15th century.
Allegories.
Satirical literature.
Incunabula -- France -- Strasbourg.
Allégories.
Satires (Littérature)
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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