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tib01091000

Text-inc Id:
tib01091000
Bod-inc Id:
B-513
Headings:
Brant, Sebastian Das Narrenschiff [Latin] Stultifera navis (trans. Jacobus Locher; with captions).
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page with date ‘1498' and motto and name of Bergmann de Olpe.]
  2. a1v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem'. Incipit: ‘[C]armina sint quamuis triuiali sculpta moneta'; 7 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 210-11.
  3. a1v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. Incipit: ‘[S]i fas esset, preceptor iucundissime . . .’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211. Dated Freiburg, 1 Feb. [14]97.
  4. a3v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad S[ebastianum] Brant'. Incipit: ‘Si mihi nunc pean sacros concederet arcus'; 26 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211-12.
  5. a4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon'. Incipit: ‘Grandibus possunt numeris tonare'; 15 sapphic strophes.
  6. a5v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma in Narragoniam . . . ad lectores'. Incipit: ‘Nauem stultorum iucundo sco[m]mate promsit'; 8 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
  7. a5v [Ps 106,23 and 26-7]. ‘Ad Narragoniam'.
  8. a5v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatostichon'. Incipit: ‘Tempore fœlici currunt presentia cursu'; 5 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
  9. a6r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis Narragonice e barbaria in latiale solum exhortatio'. Incipit: ‘Nuper ego stultos vulgari carmine scripsi'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118.
  10. a6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In Narrogonicam profectionem celeusma'. Incipit: ‘Hortor, adeste viri, quos nunc vocat Eurus, eundum est'; 11 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118-19.
  11. a7r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narragoniam'. Incipit: ‘[C]um mecum diu multumque cogitassem . . .’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212.
  12. a8v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et libelli Narragonici'. Incipit: ‘Per cunctas resonant faustissima dogmata gentes'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 212-13.
  13. b2v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam'. Incipit: ‘[A]d humani generis fœlicitatem . . .’ Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 213.
  14. b3r Brant, Sebastian: 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. r8v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Excusatio'. Incipit: ‘Vertimus naues fatuas latinis'; 20 sapphic strophes.
  16. s3r [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis mechanicorum'. Incipit: ‘Stultorum trahitur collecta caterua virorum'; 20 elegiac distichs.
  17. s3v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago'. Incipit: ‘Finis adest operis, nec te, Nicolae, videre'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119.
  18. s4r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum fatuorum additio'. Incipit: ‘Te nostram accepi vertisse, Jacobe, carinam'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119-21.
  19. s7r Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de Olpe. Incipit: ‘Etsi non dubito, amice iucundissime . . .’
  20. s8r [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Ad eundem Johannem B[ergmann] de Olpe'. Incipit: ‘Me rogo commendes nostro, iucunde Johannes'; 3 elegiac distichs.
  21. s8v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem Bergmanum festine adeant'. Incipit: ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte salutes'; 27 elegiac distichs.
  22. ſ1v ‘De fatuis sagittariis'. Incipit: ‘Si non vultis indignari'; 28 rhythmic strophes. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 215-16.
  23. ſ3v Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Egloga'. Dedicated to Thomas Wolf. Incipit: ‘Marcia Roma fuit bello crepitantibus armis'.
  24. ſ5r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus inuentio noua'. Incipit: ‘Stultorum ingentes culpauimus hactenus ausus'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 121-7.
  25. x4r Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Epigramma'. Dedicated to Sebastian Brant. Incipit: ‘Augescit merito foelix Germania fama'; 9 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 217.
  26. x4r Beccadelli, Thomas: [Epigramma.] Dedicated to Johannes Bergmann de Olpe. Incipit: ‘O cui posteritas nunquam debere negabit'; 2 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 217.
  27. x4v [Colophon.] ‘Finis stultifere nauis'.
  28. x5r ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis'.
Imprint:
Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 Mar. 1498. 4°.
Collation:
a–s8 ſ–y4. 117 woodcuts; two woodcut borders.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01091000 GW 5062; H *3751; Goff B‑1091; Pr 7778; BSB‑Ink B‑821; CIBN B‑760; Hillard 483; Sack, Freiburg, 811; Schramm XXII p. 47; Schreiber V 3572; Sébastien Brant. 500e anniversaire, 195; Sheppard 2560. LCN: 13914035
Copies:
  1. B-513(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English diced russia; marbled pastedowns. Size: 217 × 153 × 26 mm. Size of leaf: 207 × 136 mm. Copperplate portrait of Sebastian Brant, removed from a sixteenth/seventeenth-century book on Basel or Amerbach(?), pasted on verso of front endleaf. Cut out and mounted on back pastedown: ‘Epigramma eiusdem Philomusi in Speculum laicorum Vdalrici Tengler Vernacula lingua confectum'. Provenance: On a1r inscription: ‘R.B.' Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 69.
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