16TH-CENTURY BOOKS
16TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Ship
of Fools as
BASIS
for 
Renaissance
Sermons
Emblematic
Woodcuts
Geyler [Geiler], Johann, von Keysersperg. Nauicula siue
speculu[m] fatuor[um] Presta[n]tissimi sacrar[um] literaru[m] doctoris Joannis Geyler Keysersbergij.
Concionatoris Arge[n]tinen[sis] a Jacobo Othero collecta. Compendiosa vitae eiusdem descriptio, per
Beatum Rhenanum Selestatinum. Ad Narragoniam. [colophon: Argen{torati}: Excriptum in aedibus
Schurerianis, 1510]. 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). Unfolioed, but [284] ff.
America
(leaf Z2r).
The two woodcuts (title-page and opposite A1r) are copies of illustrations appearing in Brant's famous work — the first, a version of the Ship and the second, of “The Corrupt Way to Live of Those Who Are Ruined.” The volume is, as one would expect, printed in gothic type (except for the biography). There are spaces with guide letters for capitals; the side margins have letters and numbers to aid in finding passages.
Of this edition, in the U.S. we locate only the copies at the New York Public and Cornell University libraries.
• Alden & Landis, European Americana, 510/5; VD16 G777 (& ZV 6437 for the Life); Adams G315; Ritter, Strasbourg, 955. 18th-century German boards covered with black-mottled paper; paper spine label. Portion of front free endpaper cut away; small blank area of top of title-page cut away and repaired long ago. Light waterstains and occasional instances of worming (in margins). The final section, i.e., the Vita, is loose in the binding. (25378)
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