farfel_n06_069_436

436
Dr. Eichenberger
Bein Wil Am See
July '95
Gift

Brant, Sebastian 1457-1521
Narrenschiff, Low German: Dat nye schip van
narragonien. XLI h
Rostock: Ludwig Dietz, ? Dec. 7 1519 small 4^0 (19cm)
Ref: Panzer 964. Muther 1980. Murray-German - 186x132mm. 90
Index Aureb. 123.696, Brunet I. p. 1203
Copy: Library of Congress, Kopenhagen Kgl B, London BM
([crossed out] 170 plus [end crossed out] register) on G4-5vo
plus 3 leaves unnumbered Sigs A2 + 3
marked A + Aij
Sig: A-B^4, C^8D4E4-F^4, G^8, H^8-Z^4 (alternatively), A^8-F^4 (alternatively) G^6. (Colophon)
In addition to the title cuts, printers mark + capitals,
there are 110 indicudual woodcuts + 4 repeats (114 total)
Floreated initials. The translator is unknown. THe translation
would appear to have been made from one of the ed. in German printed
say before 1497 - most probably it was reprinted from the Lubecked.
Second ed. in Low German; the 1st was printed at
Lubeck in 1497 (Schreiber 3561; Proctor 2641; BMC II p. 559)
Text begins on 3rd leaf (marked A2).
Brunet L'ed. de Roztock dorth Ludovicum Dietz, 1519 in 4^0
.... donne une redaction en vers bas-saxons faite
sur le texte interpole de Nurmb. 1494, avec la copie des
planches de cette meme ed; elle a ete vendu 1 liv. lish.
en mar. r. chez Rich, Heber. M. Graesse dit que
probablement l'ed. de 1519 a ete precedu par une
autre de Lubeck, 1497.

-At least 12 German editions appeared before brant's
death in 1521.
-The printer L. Dietz moved later to Lubeck where he
printed in 1433 a beautiful Low (Platt) German
Bible. Later he moved back to Rostock; where he
died in 1559.