Stultifera nauis
Subtitle: qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, e Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. an. Do. 1570. = The ship of fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with diuers other workes adioyned vnto the same : very profitable and fruitfull for all men
By: translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay priest
Contributors: Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552, translator; Locher, Jacob, 1471-1528, translator; Mancinus, Dominicus, active 1478-1491; Cawood, John, 1514-1572, printer; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder; Brooke, Thomas, Sir, 1830-1908, former owner; Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher: In Paules Churchyarde by Iohn Cavvood printer to the Queenes Maiestie
Published: 1570
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: lat
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Folly
Other titles: Ship of fooles; Stultifera navis; Mirrour of good maners
Work titles: Narrenschiff
Notes: Printer's name and address from colophon; publication date from STC.

Signatures: ℗œ-℗œ℗œ́œ A-2V́œ 2X́þ ℗øA-Ǵœ ℗đA-D́œ.

Includes indexes.

"The mirrour of good maners" (℗øA-Ǵœ) and "Certayne egloges of Alexander Barclay priest" (℗đA-D́œ), each with caption title, are unfoliated.

Leaves 99, 191, 200, and 201 misprinted as 96, 188, 100, and 205.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 3546

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 41

English short title catalogue, S107135

Text in Latin and English; the Latin that of Jacob Locher (1497) with reproductions of the woodcuts of the original edition of Das Narrenschiff, 1494. The English portion of the work is in Blackletter type, the Latin in Roman.

Cataloged 20170414 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by Francis Bedford in red goatksin paneled and tooled in gilt. Spine paneled and tooled in gilt. All text block edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., and bookplate of BPL Bates Fund on front pastedown. BPL perforation stamp on title page. Pencil collation note, signed by E. Talbott for Quaritch, on recto of flyleaf at back. Purchased Aug., 1921.