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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

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yama-bato: Sebastian Brant: The Ship of Fools Stultifera Navis, Latin translation by James Locher Strasbourg: Johann Gruninger, 1497 Title ex Bibliotheca Gymnasii Altonani

yama-bato:

Sebastian Brant: The Ship of Fools

Stultifera Navis, Latin translation by James Locher

Strasbourg: Johann Gruninger, 1497

  • Title
  • ex Bibliotheca Gymnasii Altonani
anarchoaesthete: ”First in this dance of fools I stand, For though I’ve books on every hand, I read them not, nor understand” Sebastian Brant - Ship of Fools (text translated by William Gillis)

anarchoaesthete:

”First in this dance of fools I stand,

For though I’ve books on every hand,

I read them not, nor understand”

Sebastian Brant - Ship of Fools (text translated by William Gillis)

mediumaevum: This woodcut is by an unknown artist. It is an illustration from the book Stultifera navis (Ship of Fools) by Sebastian Brant, published by Johann Bergmann in Basel in 1498. The allegory depicts a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious, passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction. 

mediumaevum:

This woodcut is by an unknown artist. It is an illustration from the book Stultifera navis (Ship of Fools) by Sebastian Brant, published by Johann Bergmann in Basel in 1498.

The allegory depicts a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious, passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction.