Bookplate of the Bohemian industrialist and art collector Karl Adalbert Lanna (1805-66) to front pastedown a shelfmark, dated 16 March 1888, written on lower flyleaf. Provenance: Handwritten ownership of Virgilius Fetius of Oettingen in Bavaria (gift from Johann Nortman in February 1577), dated 1578, on the flyleaf. Upper hinge starting, but binding generally in fine condition. A few underlinings in red ink to the "Pharsalia". Light brownstaining and occasional light waterstains throughout. 132).īound with this is an uncommon Cologne edition of Lucanus's epic "Pharsalia", esteemed throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages for its stylistic and historical merits. Thèse de médecine cardinale manuscriteAvailable at the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (Paris).See this resource in Medica digital library. Incidentally, the book also contains the earliest literary reference to the discovery of America: "Hesperiae occiduae rex Ferdinandus, in alto Aequore nunc gentes repperit innumeras" ("Ferdinand, King of the West, recently discovered innumerable peoples across the high seas", p. Erwin Panofsky called the book "a remarkably complete mirror of human life", based upon the "universality of Brant's self-righteous surliness and the picturesqueness of his metaphors" (Panofsky, p. "he first original work by a German which passed into world literature helped to blaze the trail that leads from medieval allegory to modern satire, drama and novel of character" (PMM). In his "Ship of Fools", Brant describes the voyage of a ship bearing one hundred fools, to the fools' paradise of Narragonia, thereby satirizing the follies of his time including representatives of every human and social type. One of literature's most famous satires: before Goethe's "Werther" arrived on the scene, this work was the most successful book ever published in Germany. The first six illustrations are coloured by a contemporary hand. This is the first edition to contain the outstanding narrative woodcuts by Tobias Stimmer (1539-84), showing the fools and their companions in Renaissance costume. Your personal data will be used to support your experience throughout this website, to manage access to your account, and for other purposes described in our privacy policy.Ī fine, later Latin edition of the famous "Narrenschiff", originally published in German verse in 1494 and translated by the author's student Jacob Locher in 1497.
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