Barclay, Alexander 1509a

Template:SrcVarsBarclay, Alexander, adapt.; Brandt, Sebastian; Locher, Jakob, transl. Venerandissimo in Xp̄o Patri ac dn̄o: dn̄o Thome Cornisshe [...] Alexander Barclay suiipsius recōmendacionē... This present Boke named the Shyp of folys of the worlde was translated ī the College of Saynt Mary Otery in the counte of Deuonshyre: out of Laten, Frenche, and Doche into Englysshe tonge by Alexander Barclay Preste. Inprentyd in the cyte of London in Fletestre [sic] at the signe of Saynt George: By Rycharde Pynson to hys coste and charge, 1509. [4], cclxxiiii [i.e. cclxxix] leaves; signatures: ✠⁴ a⁸ b-p⁶ q⁶(q3+1) r-z⁶ &⁶ A-Y⁶. Fol. 118 Woodcuts.

STC (2nd ed.) #3545. With Latin and English text on alternating pages. English version by Alexander Barclay; Latin by Jacob Locher. Sebastian Brandt's original German work published 1494.

Copies

• Birmingham Central Libraries
• BL
• Cambridge University Corpus Christi College
• CUL
• Bodleian Library
• Oxford University St. John’s College
• John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
• Cambridge Trinity College Library
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Huntington Library
• Newberry
• Princeton University
• Yale University Center for British Art (two copies)
• Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library
• Auckland Public Library.

Bibliographical sources

• Barclay, Alexander, adapt.; [Brandt, Sebastian]; [Jamieson, Thomas Hill], ed. The Ship of Fools (Edinburgh; London, 1874), pp. xcviii-xcix.

Citation

• Barclay, Alexander, adapt.; Brandt, Sebastian; Locher, Jakob, transl. This present Boke named the Shyp of folys of the worlde (London, 1509).