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tib01093000

Text-inc Id:
tib01093000
Bod-inc Id:
B-514
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'. 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 Se[bastianum] Brant'. Incipit: ‘Si mihi nunc paean sacros concederet arcus'; 26 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 211-12.
  5. a4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon'. Incipit: ‘Graudibus(!) 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 Gergmanum(!) de Olpe . . . decatostichon'. Incipit: ‘Tempore foelici 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 uulgari carmine scripsi'; 13 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 118.
  10. a6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In Narraconicam(!) profectionem celeusma'. Incipit: ‘Hortor, adeste uiri, quos nunc uocat Eurus, eumdum 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 foelicitatem . . .’ Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 213.
  14. b2v Brant, Sebastian: Stultifera navis. ‘De inutilibus' [libris]. Translated by Jacobus Locher. Incipit: ‘Inter precipuos pars est mihi reddita stultos'. Chapters 1, 4, and 62 edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 214-15.
  15. r6v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Excusatio'. Incipit: ‘Vertimus naues fatuas latinis'; 20 sapphic strophes.
  16. r8v [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis navis mechanicorum'. Incipit: ‘Stultorum trahitur collecta caterua uirorum'; 20 elegiac distichs.
  17. s1v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago'. Incipit: ‘Finis adest operis, nec te, Nicolae, uidere'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119.
  18. s1v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de Olpe. Incipit: ‘Etsi non dubito, amice iucundissime . . .’
  19. s2v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Ad eundem Johannem B[ergmann] de Olpe'. Incipit: ‘Me rogo commendes nostro, iucunde Johannes'; 3 elegiac distichs.
  20. s2v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos ut Johannem Germanum(!) festine adeant'. Incipit: ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte salutes'; 27 elegiac distichs.
  21. s3v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum fatuorum additio'. Incipit: ‘Te nostram accaepi uertisse, Jacobe, carinam'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119-21.
  22. s6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus inuentio noua'. Incipit: ‘Stultorum ingentes culpauimus hactenus ausus'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 121-7.
  23. t8r Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Epigramma'. Dedicated to Sebastian Brant. Incipit: ‘Augescit merito foelix Germania fama'; 9 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 217.
  24. t8v Beccadelli, Thomas: [Epigramma.] Dedicated to Johannes Bergmann de Olpe. Incipit: ‘O cui posteritas nunquam debere negabit'; 2 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 217.
  25. t8v [Colophon.] ‘Finis stultifere nauis'.
  26. u1r ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis'.
  27. u3v ‘Fatuus mundanus'. Incipit: ‘Dum me cura tenet sublimia forte petendi'; 4 elegiac distichs.
Imprint:
[Lyons]: Jacobus Sacon, 28 June ‘1488' [i.e. 1498]. 4°. The printed date ‘1488' is erroneous: see K. Ohly, ‘Die Anfänge des Buchdrucks in Basel', ZfB 57 (1940), 259-60.
Collation:
a–t8 u4. 119 woodcuts.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01093000 GW 5063; HC 3752; Goff B‑1093; BMC VIII 336; Pr 8671; BSB‑Ink B‑822; Sheppard 6738-9. LCN: 13911696
Copies:
  1. B-514(1) First copy Binding: Sheep. Manuscript fragments used as reinforcing strips. Size: 208 × 145 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 206 × 143 mm. Provenance: Inscriptions on a1r and u3v: ‘Jeclausa' or ‘Declausa'(?). Abbé Fauvel (fl. 1700); ‘E bibliotheca D. Abbatis Fauvel'; armorial book-plate on front pastedown. Nathaniel Crynes (1686-1745). Bequeathed in 1745. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Crynes 802. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.17.
  2. B-514(2) Second copy Wanting p1 and the blank leaf u4. Leaf s6 uncut. Binding: Eighteenth-century French gold-tooled blue morocco; marbled pastedowns and gilt edges. Size: 192 × 131 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 186 × 121 mm. On n6v four lines of Latin text added in an early hand. Provenance: Erased ownership note on a1r. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 68.
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