Stultifera Nauis, qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum
vtilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è Latino
sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do.
1570. [Woodcut.] The Ship of Fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all
States, with diuers other workes adioyned vnto the same, very profitable
and fruitfull for all men. Translated out of Latin into Englishe by
Alexander Barclay Priest. [Colophon] _Imprinted at London in Paules
Churchyarde by Iohn Cawood Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. Cum
Priuilegio ad imprimendum solum._
F^o. =B. L.= (11 × 7-1/2). F. 13.
Collation: ¶-2¶^6A-2V^{6}2X^4; A-G^6; A-D^6, folios numbered in
first alphabet. Epistle dedicatory from Alexander Barclay to Thomas
Cornissh, Bishop of Bath, in Latin. Latin verses by Iacobus Locher.
Latin epistle of the same to Sebastian Brant, dated, Friburg, Feb.
1, 1497. Commendatory verses in Latin by the same to Brant. More
Latin verses by the same. Latin verses by the same to Johannes
Bergmannus de Olpe. Latin verses by Brant to Locher. Latin prologue
by Locher. Same in English. Introductory verses in Latin and
English. Prose Argument in Latin and English. Latin verses by
Locher, and by Brant. Copy of English verses. Text of the 'Ship of
Fools' with woodcuts. At the end is the note 'Thus endeth the Ship
of Fooles, Translated out of Latin, French and Duch, into Englishe,
by Alexander Barclay Priest, at that time Chaplen in the Colledge
of S. Mary Otery in the Countie of Deuon. Anno Domini. 1508.' More
Latin verses by Locher. English verses by the translator. Table of
contents in Latin and English. The second alphabet contains, with
head-title, 'The Mirrour of good Maners. Conteining the foure
Cardinal Vertues, compiled in Latin by Dominike Mancin, and
translated into English by Alexander Barclay priest, and Monke of
Ely. At the desire of the right worshipfull syr Giles Alington
Knight.' Latin and English in parallel columns. At the end verses,
in Latin and English, by Petrus Carmelianus. The third alphabet
contains, with head-title, 'Certayne Egloges of Alexander Barclay
Priest, Whereof the first three conteyne the miseryes of Courtiers
and Courtes of all princes in generall, Gathered out of a booke
named in Latin, Miseriæ Curialium, compiled by Eneas Siluius Poet
and Oratour' (_i.e._ Æneas Silvius Piccolomini, afterwards Pius
II.) five in number, in double columns. Two editions of the
translation of Brant appeared in 1509 from the presses respectively
of R. Pynson and Wynkin de Worde, the latter of whom printed
another edition in 1518. The present edition appears to be the
fourth. Of the Eclogues, i-iv were printed by R. Pynson, the fifth
by W. de Worde early in the century; i-iii were twice reprinted
about the middle of the century, while the present is the first
edition containing all five.
Sinker 210. BM 260.