Stultifera Nauis, : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis [et] necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda,

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521, Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552 · 1570 · Imprinted at London : In Paules Churchyard by Iohn Cauuood ... · 14 pictures

Stultifera Nauis is a 1570 London edition of Sebastian Brant's moral satire, with Alexander Barclay's English verse, printed by John Cauuood in Paules Churchyard for a general readership seeking salvation. Its woodcuts are small framed black-line scenes of everyday moral folly, with a schoolroom beating, a man bearing a heavy sack, a prancing horned devil crowd, and a figure riding a beast; a designer could borrow their crisp contour line, dense ornamental borders, and compact narrative staging.

Imprint 1570

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