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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 pean sacros concederet arcus'; 26 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211-12.

a4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon'. Incipit: ‘Grandibus 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 Bergmannum 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 Narragonicam profectionem celeusma'. Incipit: ‘Hortor, adeste uiri, quos nunc uocat Eurus, eundum 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 nauis 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 Bergmanum festine adeant'. Incipit: ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte salutes'; 27 elegiac distichs.

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

s6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine viuendi 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'.

v1r ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis'.

v4r ‘Fatuus mundanus'. Incipit: ‘Dum me cura tenet sublimia forte petendi'; 4 elegiac distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: Paris: [Georg Wolf, for] Geoffroy de Marnef, 8 Mar. 1498. 4°.

Remarks: On the date see Hillard.

Collation

Collation: a–t⁸ v⁴.

Illustrations: 118 woodcuts.

References

ISTC: ib01092000

GW: GW 5064;

Hain: HC 3753;

Goff: Goff B‑1092;

BMC: BMC VIII 150;

Proctor: Pr 8381;

Others: CIBN B‑761; Hillard 484; Sheppard 6380.

LCN: 13911744

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