Stultifera nauis
Subtitle: narragonice p[ro]fectio[n]is nunq[uam] satis laudata nauis
By: per Sebastianum. Bra[n]t: vernaculo vulgariq[ue] sermo[n]e & rythmo ... nup[er] fabricata: atq[ue] ia[m] pridem per Iacobu[m] Locher cognome[n]to Philomusum: Sueuu[m]: in latinu[m] traducta eloquiu[m]: & per Sebastianu[m] Brant: denuo seduloq[ue] reuisa ...
Publisher: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Conduct of life; Poetry; Early works to 1800; German Verse satire; Translations into Latin
Other titles: Stultifera navis
Work titles: Narrenschiff
Notes: In verse.

A reprint of the first Latin edition (Basel: J. Bergmann, 1 March 1497).

Colophon (leaf 114v): Finis Narragonice nauis ... Imp[re]ssu[m] in i[m]p[er]iali ac vrbe libera Arge[n]tina per magistru[m] Ioanne[m] gruninge[r]. Anno salutis nostre .M.ccccxcvij kale[n]dis Iunij. Vale i[n]clite lector.

Signatures: A⁶ B-I⁶·⁴ K-T⁴·⁶ V⁶ x-y⁶.

Errors in foliation: leaves 21-22, 33-34 omitted; leaves 5, 6, 94 misnumbered 7, 5, 64 respectively.

Woodcut of a ship of fools on title-page (repeated on x3r, x5v), 115 half-page woodcut ill. in text (many repeated). All were freely copied, sometimes in reverse, from those in the 1494 and 1497 Basel eds. pub. by Bergmann.

A few initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Includes introductory and laudatory verses and short prose pieces by Brant and Locher.

Hain, 3749*.

Proctor, 480.

Goff, B-1089.

GW, 5057.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 3570.

BM 15th cent., I, 112 (IA.1459).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ib01089000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 180.

Hain. Repertorium, 3749. Gesamtkat d. Wiegendr., 5057. Schramm. Bilderschmuck d. Frühdr., v. 20, p. 4, 23 and illus.