tib01089000

Text-inc Id:

tib01089000

Bod-inc Id:

B-509

Headings:

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

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A1v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 210-11.
3. A1v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211. Dated Freiburg, 1 Feb. [14]97.
4. A3r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad Se[bastianum] B[rant]'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211-12.
5. A3v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Saphicon'.’ Incipit: ‘Grandibus possunt numeris tonare'; 15 strophes.
6. A4v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma in Narragoniam . . . ad lectores'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
7. A4v [Ps 106,23 and 26-7]. ‘Ad Narragoniam'.
8. A4v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatosticon'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
9. A5r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis Narragonice e barbaria in latiale solum exhortatio'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118.
10. A5v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In narrogonicam(!) profectionem celeusma'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118-19.
11. A5v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narragoniam'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
12. B1r [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et libelli Narragonici'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212-13.
13. B2v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam'.’ Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 213.
14. 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.
15. x4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Excusatio'.’ Incipit: ‘Vertimus naues fatuas latinis'; 20 sapphic strophes.
16. x5v [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis mechanicorum'.’ Incipit: ‘Stultorum trahitur collecta caterua virorum'; 20 elegiac distichs.
17. x6r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119.
18. x6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum fatuorum additio'.’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119-21.
19. y2v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de Olpe. Incipit: ‘Etsi non dubito, amice iucundissime . . .’
20. y3v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Ad eundem Johannem B[ergmann] de Olpe'.’ Incipit: ‘Me rogo commendes nostro, iucunde Johannes'; 3 elegiac distichs.
21. y4r Locher, Jacobus; Philomusus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem Bergmanum festine adeant'.’ Incipit: ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte salutes'; 27 elegiac distichs.
22. y4v [Colophon.]
23. y4v ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis'.

Imprint:

Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 June 1497. 4°.

Collation:

A B⁶ C–H^4.6 I K⁴ L–V^6.4 x y⁶. 118 woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01089000 GW 5057; H *3749; Goff B‑1089; BMC I 112; Pr 480; BSB‑Ink B‑819; Schramm XX p. 23; Schreiber V 3570; Sheppard 388-9. LCN: 13914022

Copies:

1. B-509(1) First copy 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.
2. B-509(2) Second copy 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.