Stultiferae naves (The ship of fools).

Jodocus BADIUS ASCENSIUS (Author)

Fadrique Biel de Basilea (Printer)

Origin: Burgos, XV c.
Biblioteca Nacional de España. Coedition.

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Inc. 843
Facsimile. Incunabula. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.
84-923358-1-5
978-84-923358-1-7
4º
16 x 21,5 cm.
20+4 crd.
40+8 crd.
Latin.
After 18th February 1500.
29th April 1998.
3000+80+50+30
Parchment on wooden board.
Literature.
Presentation dust jacket cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile.
Numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.
Specially made laid paper.
Optional: Study in Spanish by Dietrich Briesemeister (former Director of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin).  Included  in  Bibliofilia Antigua V.

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Synopsis:

This work is a complement of the famous Stultifera navis by Sebastian Brant. In spite of the title, both works should not be confused.

The author, a humanist who was born in 1461, was a lecturer of Latin literature in Lyon, and later a publisher and a printer in Paris, until 1535, the year of his death.

This edition has been dated, due to the year which appears in the printing mark, in 1499, but the printing date should be put back at least after February 1500, since the illustrations which it includes are a copy of those engravings used in the Paris edition, from the 18th February 1500. Of the eight Parisian illustrations, six are perfectly copied. The Spanish engraver fulfilled his task well, although not all the details offered by the originals copied, have been respected.

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AC History of art / art & design styles
ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
ACND Renaissance art
AFF Drawing & drawings
AFH Prints & printmaking
AFJ Other graphic art forms
AFT Decorative arts
AGR Religious subjects depicted in art
DNF Literary essays
DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
HBJD European history
HBLC Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500

1D Europe
1DSE Spain
1DSEH Castilla y León, Autonomous Community
2ADL Latin
3H c 1000 CE to c 1500