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Brant, Sebastian

Das Narrenschiff [Latin] Stultifera navis (trans. Jacobus Locher; with captions).

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.]

a1v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem'. Incipit: ‘[C]armina sint quamuis triuiali sculpta moneta'; 7 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 210-11.

a1v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. Incipit: ‘[S]i fas esset, preceptor iucundissime . . .’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211. Dated Freiburg, 1 Feb. [14]97.

a3v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad Se[bastianum] Brant'. Incipit: ‘Si mihi nunc paean sacros concederet arcus'; 26 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211-12.

a4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon'. Incipit: ‘Graudibus(!) possunt numeris tonare'; 15 sapphic strophes.

a5v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma in Narragoniam . . . ad lectores'. Incipit: ‘Nauem stultorum iucundo sco[m]mate promsit'; 8 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.

a5v [Ps 106,23 and 26-7] ‘Ad Narragoniam'.

a5v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Gergmanum(!) de Olpe . . . decatostichon'. Incipit: ‘Tempore foelici currunt presentia cursu'; 5 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.

a6r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis Narragonice e barbaria in latiale solum exhortatio'. Incipit: ‘Nuper ego stultos uulgari carmine scripsi'; 13 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118.

a6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In Narraconicam(!) profectionem celeusma'. Incipit: ‘Hortor, adeste uiri, quos nunc uocat Eurus, eumdum est'; 11 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118-19.

a7r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narragoniam'. Incipit: ‘[C]um mecum diu multumque cogitassem . . .’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.

a8v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et libelli Narragonici'. Incipit: ‘Per cunctas resonant faustissima dogmata gentes'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212-13.

b2v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam'. Incipit: ‘[A]d humani generis foelicitatem . . .’ Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 213.

b2v Brant, Sebastian: Stultifera navis. ‘De inutilibus' [libris]. Translated by Jacobus Locher. Incipit: ‘Inter precipuos pars est mihi reddita stultos'. Chapters 1, 4, and 62 edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 214-15.

r6v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Excusatio'. Incipit: ‘Vertimus naues fatuas latinis'; 20 sapphic strophes.

r8v [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis navis mechanicorum'. Incipit: ‘Stultorum trahitur collecta caterua uirorum'; 20 elegiac distichs.

s1v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago'. Incipit: ‘Finis adest operis, nec te, Nicolae, uidere'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119.

s1v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de Olpe. Incipit: ‘Etsi non dubito, amice iucundissime . . .’

s2v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Ad eundem Johannem B[ergmann] de Olpe'. Incipit: ‘Me rogo commendes nostro, iucunde Johannes'; 3 elegiac distichs.

s2v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos ut Johannem Germanum(!) festine adeant'. Incipit: ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte salutes'; 27 elegiac distichs.

s3v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum fatuorum additio'. Incipit: ‘Te nostram accaepi uertisse, Jacobe, carinam'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119-21.

s6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus inuentio noua'. Incipit: ‘Stultorum ingentes culpauimus hactenus ausus'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 121-7.

t8r Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Epigramma'. Dedicated to Sebastian Brant. Incipit: ‘Augescit merito foelix Germania fama'; 9 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 217.

t8v Beccadelli, Thomas: [Epigramma.] Dedicated to Johannes Bergmann de Olpe. Incipit: ‘O cui posteritas nunquam debere negabit'; 2 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 217.

t8v [Colophon.] ‘Finis stultifere nauis'.

u1r ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis'.

u3v ‘Fatuus mundanus'. Incipit: ‘Dum me cura tenet sublimia forte petendi'; 4 elegiac distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: [Lyons]: Jacobus Sacon, 28 June ‘1488' [i.e. 1498]. 4°.

Remarks: The printed date ‘1488' is erroneous: see K. Ohly, ‘Die Anfänge des Buchdrucks in Basel', ZfB 57 (1940), 259-60.

Collation

Collation: a–t⁸ u⁴.

Illustrations: 119 woodcuts.

References

ISTC: ib01093000

GW: GW 5063;

Hain: HC 3752;

Goff: Goff B‑1093;

BMC: BMC VIII 336;

Proctor: Pr 8671;

Others: BSB‑Ink B‑822; Sheppard 6738-9.

LCN: 13911696

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