Bod-Inc: B-509
Brant, Sebastian
Das Narrenschiff [Latin] Stultifera navis (trans. Jacobus Locher; with captions).
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 210-11.
A1v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211. Dated Freiburg, 1 Feb. [14]97.
A3r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad Se[bastianum] B[rant]'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211-12.
A3v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Saphicon'.’ Incipit: ‘Grandibus possunt numeris tonare'; 15 strophes.
A4v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma in Narragoniam . . . ad lectores'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
A4v [Ps 106,23 and 26-7]. ‘Ad Narragoniam'.
A4v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatosticon'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
A5r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis Narragonice e barbaria in latiale solum exhortatio'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118.
A5v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In narrogonicam(!) profectionem celeusma'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118-19.
A5v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narragoniam'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
B1r [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et libelli Narragonici'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212-13.
B2v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam'.’ Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 213.
B2v Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschiff [Latin] Stultifera navis. ‘De inutilibus libris'.’ Translated by Jacobus Locher Philomusus. Incipit: ‘Inter precipuos pars est mihi reddita stultos'. Chapters 1, 4, and 62 edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 214-15.
x4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Excusatio'.’ Incipit: ‘Vertimus naues fatuas latinis'; 20 sapphic strophes.
x5v [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis mechanicorum'.’ Incipit: ‘Stultorum trahitur collecta caterua virorum'; 20 elegiac distichs.
x6r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119.
x6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum fatuorum additio'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119-21.
y2v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de Olpe. Incipit: ‘Etsi non dubito, amice iucundissime . . .’
y3v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Ad eundem Johannem B[ergmann] de Olpe'.’ Incipit: ‘Me rogo commendes nostro, iucunde Johannes'; 3 elegiac distichs.
y4r Locher, Jacobus; Philomusus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem Bergmanum festine adeant'.’ Incipit: ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte salutes'; 27 elegiac distichs.
y4v [Colophon.]
y4v ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis'.
Imprint
Imprint: Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 June 1497. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A B6 C–H4.6 I K4 L–V6.4 x y6.
Illustrations: 118 woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ib01089000
GW: GW 5057;
Hain: H *3749;
Goff: Goff B‑1089;
BMC: BMC I 112;
Proctor: Pr 480;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑819; Schramm XX p. 23; Schreiber V 3570; Sheppard 388-9.
LCN: 13914022
Copies
Copy number: B-509(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century English(?) blind and gold-tooled calf; endpapers watermarked ‘1811'.
Size: 204 × 145 × 19 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 136 mm.
After D5 is pasted a coloured woodcut with a note by Douce, a modified impression of the woodcut on D5v, cut out of F2r of the edition of Horace, Opera printed in Strasbourg by Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger on 12 Mar. 1498, cf. Auct. O 2.6 and Douce 232.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 67.
Copy number: B-509(2)
Wanting V1.
Binding: Old parchment.
Size: 193 × 147 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 191 × 140 mm.
Woodcut on B3r coloured.
Provenance: Gerardus de Wind (eighteenth century); inscription on front pastedown: 'G. de Wind'. Purchased ‘At Wise's 1st auction of Thorpe's Books', lot 599 for £0. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 4, and Financial Statements (1828-32; 1837-40, Library Records b. 4), no. 16, ‘Books purchased by the Librarian'.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sup. 1.17.
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