BADIUS ASCENSIUS, JODOCUS

Stultiferae naves.

BADIUS ASCENSIUS, JODOCUS .

Stultiferae naves. Printer: Fadrique Biel de Basilea. Burgos, after 18th February 1500. Size 21,5 x 16 cm. 22 leaves (44 pages)

This work is a complement of the famous Stultifera navis by Sebastian Brant. Despite the title both works should not be confused. The author, a humanist born in 1461, was a lecturer of Latin literature in Lyon, and later publisher and printer in Paris, until 1535, the year of his death.

The edition has been dated, due to the year wich appears in the printing mark, in 1499, but the printing date should be put back at least after February 1500, since the illustrations which it includes are a copy of those engravings used in the Paris edition, from the 18th February 1500. Of the eight Parisian illustrations, six are loyally copied. The Spanish engraver fulfilled his task well, although not all the details offered by the originals copied have been respected.

- Our edition: Valencia, 1998. Coedited with the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid.

-Edition of 3.000 copies, numbered and signed by notary, and signed by the printer-publisher.

-Binding: parchment on wooden board.

-Presentation case cloth lined with leather spine engraved in gold containing facsimile and study in Spanish.

-Specially made laid paper.

-Study in Spanish by Dietrich Briesemeister (former Director of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin). Included in Bibliofilia Antiqua V.