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Stultifera navis. Translated from German into Latin by Jacobus Locher Philomusus (1471-1528) in collaboration with Brant, and with additions by Thomas Beccadelli. Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March 1498.
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BRANT, Sebastian (1457-1521)
Stultifera navis. Translated from German into Latin by Jacobus Locher Philomusus (1471-1528) in collaboration with Brant, and with additions by Thomas Beccadelli. Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March 1498.
Second enlarged edition of the Ship of Fools, with additional poems by Brant and Thomas Beccadelli. Immensely and immediately popular, the work was printed in 26 editions before the end of the 15th century. Among its most direct imitators was Erasmus for his own biting satire, Moriae Encomium. In the present edition the reference to the discovery of America appears on f. 76v. The fine woodcut illustrations are those commissioned for the first edition (in German) of 1494, also printed by Bergmann at Basel, many of which are now recognised as the work of Albrecht Dürer, supplemented here with cuts from Bergmann’s other previous editions (cf. Winkler (Dürer und die Illustrationen zum Narrenschiff, 1951). All subsequent illustrations to the text derive from this series. H 3751*; GW 5062; Alden and Landis 498/5; BSB-Ink B-821; Bod-inc B-513; CIBN B-760; Schreiber 3572; Goff B-1091; ISTC ib01091000.
Chancery quarto (217 x 152mm). 163 leaves (of 164, without final blank). 118 woodcuts, including repeats and 3 full-page cuts, by Albrecht Dürer, the Master of Haintz Narr, the Master of Gnad Her, and two other anonymous woodcut artists, printer's device, woodcut ornamental borderpieces and device (occasional faint stain, small spot on q3). 20th-century brown morocco by Gruel, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: unidentified 20th-century bookplate at end.
Stultifera navis. Translated from German into Latin by Jacobus Locher Philomusus (1471-1528) in collaboration with Brant, and with additions by Thomas Beccadelli. Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March 1498.
Second enlarged edition of the Ship of Fools, with additional poems by Brant and Thomas Beccadelli. Immensely and immediately popular, the work was printed in 26 editions before the end of the 15th century. Among its most direct imitators was Erasmus for his own biting satire, Moriae Encomium. In the present edition the reference to the discovery of America appears on f. 76v. The fine woodcut illustrations are those commissioned for the first edition (in German) of 1494, also printed by Bergmann at Basel, many of which are now recognised as the work of Albrecht Dürer, supplemented here with cuts from Bergmann’s other previous editions (cf. Winkler (Dürer und die Illustrationen zum Narrenschiff, 1951). All subsequent illustrations to the text derive from this series. H 3751*; GW 5062; Alden and Landis 498/5; BSB-Ink B-821; Bod-inc B-513; CIBN B-760; Schreiber 3572; Goff B-1091; ISTC ib01091000.
Chancery quarto (217 x 152mm). 163 leaves (of 164, without final blank). 118 woodcuts, including repeats and 3 full-page cuts, by Albrecht Dürer, the Master of Haintz Narr, the Master of Gnad Her, and two other anonymous woodcut artists, printer's device, woodcut ornamental borderpieces and device (occasional faint stain, small spot on q3). 20th-century brown morocco by Gruel, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: unidentified 20th-century bookplate at end.
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