Stultifera nauis : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è 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
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Type of record: Book
Title: Stultifera nauis : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è 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
Other titles: Ship of fooles
Classmark: BC GB C16/17 quarto BRA
Creator(s): Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521)
Additional creator(s): Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521) (Other); Barclay, Alexander (1475?-1552) (Other); Locher, Jacob (1471-1528) (Other); Pius, pope (1405-1464) (Other); Mancinus, Dominicus (1478-1491) (Other)
Publisher: In Paules Churchyarde by Iohn Cavvood printer to the Queenes Maiestie
Publication city: Imprinted at London
Date(s): 1570
Language: English
Size and medium: 12 unnumbered pages, 259 pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 42 unnumbered pages; 24 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298042
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003826989705181
Description
By Sebastian Brant, whose name appears on [par.]2v.
A translation of: Narrenschiff.
Text in Latin and English, with English text printed in black letter and the Latin in roman; the Latin version is by Jacob Locher, whose name appears on [par.]2v.
In verse.
Dedication to Thomas Cornish, suffragen bishop of Bath & Wells.
Printer's name and address from colophon; publication date from STC.
Colophon begins: 'Thus endeth the ship of fooles, translated out of Latin, French and Duch, into Englishe, by Alexander Barclay priest, at that time chaplen in the Colledge of S. Mary Otery in the countie of Deuon. Anno Domini. 1508'.
Signatures: [par.]-2[par.]⁶ A-2V⁶ 2X⁴; A-G⁶; A-D⁶.
With numerous woodcuts in text; some are repeated (cf. ff. 69 and 121b); some copied from those in the Latin edition of 1497 (e.g. 90b). Woodcut depicting four ships on title-page.
"The mirrour of good maners" (A-G⁶) and "Certayne egloges of Alexander Barclay priest" (A-D⁶), each with caption title, are unfoliated.
Includes Eclogues 4 and 5 by Alexander Barclay, "De curialium miseria" by Pope Pius II, and "De quatuor virtutibus" by Dominicus Mancinus, the last two items translated by Barclay.
Ship of fooles.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 3546.
Additional description
With the bookplates of Charles Hervey Hoare and John Conyers of Copt Hall, Essex. On flyleaf is the autograph inscription 'The gift of the Rt. Hon. the Countess of Pomfret at Windsor Castle May 1755. John Conyers'. Calf binding, spine gilt tooled. On front cover and spine initials and coronet of Countess of Pomfret
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