La nef des folz du monde.

Accession number: 
PML 616
Author: 
Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521.
Published: 
Imprimee a Lyon : per maistre Guillaume Balsarin, Le .xi. iour du moys daoust lan de grace mil quatre cens quatre vingz [et] dixhuit [11 August 1498].
Description: 
[84] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf o6r: Cy finist le nef des folz de monde premiereme[n]t co[m]posee en aleman par maistre sebastien brant docteur es droitz. Conseque[n]teme[n]t daleman en latin redigee par maistre iacques locher ... Et despuis tra[n]slatee de latin en rethorique francoise. Et finableme[n]t translatee de rime en prose avecq[ui]s aulcunes aditions nouvelles par maistre iehan drouyn bachelier es loix [et] en decret. Imprimee a lyon sur le rosen, p[er] maistre guillaume balsarin libraire demourant au dit lyon. Le .xi. iour du moys daoust lan de grace mil quatre cens quatre vingz [et] dixhuit. Deo gratias. [Printer's mark, leaf o6v]
PML copy a variant with colophon dated 11 August 1498 rather than just 1498.
Printed in Balsarin's types 1:77G, 5:94G, and 6:260G.
Signatures: a-o⁶: 84 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated from the Latin version of Locher by Jean Drouyn.
115 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 19.3 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (27 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Bisiaux (binder's ticket front endleaf 1 verso).
Variant Title: 

Nef des folz du monde

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary French inscriptions, illegible (leaves a1r and o6r-v).

Provenance: 
William Beckford (1760-1844), his library descended to his daughter Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852) 10th Duke of Hamilton; Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part I, 30 June 1882, lot 1184, for £32.0.0 to Bernard Quaritch with sale bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso) and collation note, 6 July 1882 (rear endleaf 2 recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 197, 8/5/96 and price code: ll/-/- +com (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books