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Brant, Sebastian

Varia carmina.

 

Analysis of Content

A1r [Title-page with woodcuts.] Incipit: ‘Que tibi diua miser christipara carmina lusi'; 3 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 174.

A1v Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Wymmarus de Ercklens. Incipit: ‘[Quia] te summa virtute virum . . .’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 174-5. Dated Basel, 15 Mar. 1498.

A2v Brant, Sebastian: Varia carmina. [Part I.] ‘Ad magnificum et nobilem virum dominum Adelberum de Rotperg . . . inuectio'. Incipit: ‘Quod te cultorem scio virginis intemerate . . .’ Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 175-84 nos 1-41. See also Curt F. Bühler, ‘The Publication of Sebastian Brant's Varia Carmina’, Gb Jb 37 (1962), 179-82.

a1r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus inuentio noua'. Incipit: ‘Stultorum ingentes culpauimus hactenus ausus'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 121-7. Without the two concluding distichs addressed to the reader.

bc4r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part II.] ‘In Bethicum triumphum congratulatio'. Incipit: ‘Si, Fernande, tibi possent mea carmina laudis'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 184-5 nos 43-5.

d1r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum regem gloriosissimum in vitam et conuersationem regum Israhel et Juda'. Incipit: ‘[H]actenus immensum regnorum enauimus equor'. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 185 no. 46.

e4r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part III.] ‘Ad cunctos Rhomano imperio subiectos elegiaca exhortatio contra perfidos et sacrilegos Flamingos'. Incipit: ‘[A]ccipite, o reges, quam nostrum polluat aeuum'. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 186-7 nos 47-59.

h4v Brant, Sebastian: [Two German-Latin poems.] ‘De causis deprauationis rerum omnium'. Incipit: ‘[P]osteaquam impuberes cunnos gens stulta petiuit'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 153-4.

h6v Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part IV.] Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 187-92 nos 62-79.

l5r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum fatuorum additio'. Incipit: ‘Te nostram accepi vertisse, Jacobe, carinam . . .’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119-21.

l8r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part V.] Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 192 no. 81.

m1r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part VI.] ‘Explanatio . . . de anticipatione horologii Basiliensium'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 192-4 nos 82-6.

n1r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part VII.] ‘Thurcorum terror et potentia'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 194-5 no. 86^a.

n4v Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad lectorem carminum suorum'. Incipit: ‘Carmina nostra prement multi (scio) lector, ab illis'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 195 no. 86^b.

[*1r] ‘Finis carminum Sebastiani Brant'. Incipit: ‘Hoc Titionis opus, dulcis Wynmare, peractum'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 195 no. 87.

[*1r] [Colophon.]

[*1v] ‘Registrum carminum S. Brant'.

Imprint

Imprint: Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 May [14]98. 4°.

Collation

Collation: A–D⁸ E–H^4.8 I K⁴ a⁸ bc⁴ d–h⁸ i^{4 8} l⁸ m n [*⁴].

Illustrations: Seven woodcuts; two woodcut borders; woodcut initials.

References

ISTC: ib01099000

GW: GW 5068;

Hain: HC *3731; C 1238 (incl. 1244);

Goff: Goff B‑1099;

BMC: BMC III 796;

Proctor: Pr 7779;

Others: BSB‑Ink B‑808; CIBN B‑757; Hillard 485; Oates 2854; Rhodes 436; Sack, Freiburg, 803; Schreiber V 3543, 3543a, 3580; Schramm XXII p. 47; Sheppard 2561.

LCN: 13911784

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