Bod-Inc: F-009
Facetus
Liber Faceti docens mores hominum [Latin and German].
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Facetus Cum nihil utilius. Latin.] ‘Liber Faceti de moribus iuuenum'. See F‑005.
a2r Brant, Sebastian: [Facetus Cum nihil utilius. German.] Sebastian Brants Narrenschiff, ed. Friedrich Zarncke (Leipzig, 1854), 131-53; see also Carl Schröder, Der deutsche Facetus, Palaestra, 86 (Berlin, 1911), 242-5; see VL I 992-1005, at 997.
c3v [First colophon.]
c4r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad studiose indolis pueros'. Incipit: ‘Has cape, digne puer, normas virtutis amenas | Ex quibus insistas moribus (oro) bonis'; 11 elegiac distichs.
c4r [Second colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: [Basel]: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1499. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a8 b c4.
Remarks: Collation as in GW; BMC collates a b8.
Illustrations: Woodcut on a1r: see Schreiber.
References
ISTC: if00042400
GW: GW 9699;
Hain: HCR 6895;
BMC: BMC III 797;
Proctor: Pr 7785;
Others: Schreiber V 3971; Sheppard 2565. Sébastien Brant. 500e anniversaire de La Nef des Folz (Basel, 1994), 79-80.
LCN: 14385220
Copies
Copy number: F-009(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 205 × 145 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 198 × 132 mm.
An early scribble on c4v.
Woodcut partly coloured in yellow and red.
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1860), 26.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.65.
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