Stultifera Nauis
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Stultifera Nauis
Other titles: Das Narrenschiff; Stultifera navis
Classmark: BC H de W/BRA
Related people: Locher, Jacob; Bergmann, Johann; Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Nup[er] op[er]a & p[ro]motione Iohannis Bergman de Olpe; Johann Bergmann, de Olpe
Publication city: In... vrbe Basiliensi [Basel]
Date(s): anno salutis n[ost]rae millesimoquadringentesimononagesimoseptimo kalendis Martiis. [1 March 1497]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: CXXXXV, [3] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/156995
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008695859705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-s⁸ t⁴.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on t1v reads: Finis stultifere Nauis Finis Narragonicae nauis per Sebastianum Brant vulgari sermo[n]e theutonico quonda[m] fabricatae... In laudatissima Germaniae vrbe Basiliensi nup[er] op[er]a & p[ro]motione Iohannis Bergman de Olpe anno salutis n[ost]rae millesimoquadringentesimononagesimoseptimo Kalendis Martiis.
The title page, leaf a1r, reads: Stultifera Nauis. Narragonice p[ro]fectionis nunq[uam] satis laudata Nauis: per Sebastianu[m] Brant: vernaculo vulgariq[ue] sermone & rhythmo p[er] cu[n]cto[rum] mortalium fatuitatis semitas effugere cupie[n]tiu[m] directione speculo co[m]modoq[ue] & salute: proq[ue] inertis ignaue[m]q[ue] stulticie[m] p[er]petua infamia execratione & confutatione nup[er] fabricata: atq[ue] iampridem per Iacobum Locher cognome[n]to Philomusum: Su[a]euu[m]: in Latinu[m] traducta eloquiu[m]: & per Sebastianu[m] Brant: denuo seduloq[ue] reuisa: fœlici exorditur principio.
Imprint on title page reads: 1497. Nihil sine causa. Io. de Olpe.
First Latin edition.
Printed with 30 or 31 long lines to a full page.
Printed headlines and marginalia.
Ornamental woodcut initials on a1v.
Illustrated with 117 woodcuts. In all but two cases the woodcuts are decorated by the addition of an ornamental left- or right-hand border.
Woodcut printer's mark beneath the colophon on t1v: Nihil Sine Causa. 1497. Io. Olpe de Bergman.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib01086000.
Indexed in: BMC III 795 (IA. 37942); Goff. Third census, B-1086; Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) 3746.
Features
Bindings
Early twentieth-century binding of inlaid red brown goatskin over pasteboard by Riviere & Son whose name is gold-tooled on the turn-in at the bottom of the front pastedown. The binding is a facsimile of an early English binding by Berthelet executed for Edward VI and found on the copy of Petri Bembi Historia Venetæ (1561) from the old Royal Collection and now in the British Museum. The upper and lower covers are decorated with a blind-tooled border of triple fillets and a decorative border and frames in black and gold, with circles at intervals. Inside the circles and frames are gold-tooled fleurons and stylised foliage. Gold-tooled in the central panel are the words: Stultifera navis - Brant - 1497. The spine has five raised bands each gold-tooled with a single fillet. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Stultifera navis. Gold-tooled in the third panel are the name and date: Brant - 1497. The other panels are decorated with a gold-tooled border in black and a central
fleuron. The board edges are gold-tooled with a single fillet and the turn-ins with two fillets. The book has gilt edges. The book is preserved in a loose burgundy cover inside a mottled brown slipcase. Gold-tooled on the spine of the loose cover are the words: Stultifera navis Brant - 1497. Size: 218 x 159mm. Leaf size: 213 x 150mm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, VIII Baron Howard de Walden (1880-1946), on the front pastedown.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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Profile: Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden (1880-1946)
Biography of Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.