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| Title | Nauis stultifera |
| Detail Depicted | Illustrations--Relief--Woodcuts |
| Creator/Author | Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521
Locher, Jacob; 1471-1528
Badius, Josse; 1462-1535
Durer, Albrecht; 1471-1528 |
| Publisher | Lamparter, Nicolas |
| Place of Publication | [Basel] [Switzerland--Basil] |
| Date of Publication | 1506 |
| Genre Heading | Early printed books--1501-1600 (16th century)
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| Bibliographic Elements | Single sheet |
| Printing Method | Letterpress on handmade laid paper |
| Printer | Lamparter, Nicolas |
| Image Production Process | Woodcuts
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| General Notes | Printing specimen taken from Brown, George M.L. Specimens of woodcuts and engravings; a portfolio of original leaves taken from rare and notable illustrated books. New York, The Foliophiles, 1926.
Latin version of the famous satirical German poem, Das Narrenschiff, or the Ship of Fools, by Sebastian Brant, translated into Latin verses by Jacob Locher, a poet and playwright of the early Renaissance. Brant describes 110 assorted follies and vices, each undertaken by a different fool, devoting chapters to such offenses as Arrogance Toward God, Marrying for Money, and Noise in Church. This work due to its popularity went through multiple editions, and was translated into Latin, French, English, Dutch, and Low German. Sebastian Brant... supervised the work of reproduction, and possibly furnished some of the sketches himself. The original woodcuts were believed to have been carved by a young Albrecht Durer during a short stay in Basel in 1494.
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| Language | Latin |
| Digital Collection | Historical Book Arts Collection |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Special Collections |
| Call Number | SpecColl Rare 096 Sp31 |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original text using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 400 dpi in color and saved in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2003. |
| Restrictions/Copyright | Some of our items are fragile and may require an appointment for use. Please contact Special Collections. |
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