La gra[n]t nef des folz du mo[n]de .

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521 · [Paris] : Imprimee pour Geoffroy de Marnef libraire de Paris. · 12 pictures

La grant nef des folz du monde is a French verse translation of Sebastian Brant's satirical Ship of Fools, printed in Paris around 1500 by Geoffroy de Marnef for a general reading public. The pages are dense black-letter text with decorated historiated initials, and one woodcut shows crowned women in a walled city with a sleeping figure. A designer could draw on the carved initial letters with foliage and figures for ornamental capitals, and on the crowded text blocks for dense period typography.

Imprint 1500

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