La grãt nef des folz du mõde
Series: French books before 1601 -- roll 527, item 1
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1499
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: German Satire; Early works to 1800; German poetry
Other titles: Grand nef des folz du monde.
Work titles: Narrenschiff
Notes: Initials, marginalia.

"It has been claimed for the Ship of Fools that it was the first printed book giving an account of contemporaneous events and living persons, instead of the old German heroes and the French knights who peopled the story-books of that period. No wonder, then, since it soon became popular, and that it was speedily translated into French and English as well as into Dutch and Low German." cf. Bibliographica, II, p. 47-50; T.H. Jamieson, tr., Barclay's Ship of Fools, Edinburgh, 1874, v. 2, p. 349; F. Max Müller, Chips from a German workshop, New York, 1873, III, p. 70.

"Illustrations of great interest, the varieties of perennial human folly being portrayed with much humour, and introducing amongst other things representations of trades and occupations of the period."--Fairfax Murray 66.