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 = The ship of fooles : wherein is shewed the folly of all states, with diuers other workes adoiyned vnto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men : translated out of Latin into Englishe
Barclay's English translation of Sebastian Brant's satire Stultifera nauis, printed in London in 1570 by John Cawood for an English readership, with additional eclogues by Barclay and a verse piece by Jacob Locher. The woodcuts show fools in jesters' caps performing foolish acts in bordered panels, a cluster of images a designer could adapt for satirical, comic, or cautionary motifs.
