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De corrupto ordine viuēdi pereūtibus

Date: 1498

Ship of Fools Woodcuts

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Rights	Public Domain

Subject	Allegories Fools and jesters Satire Folly
Place	Basel, Switzerland
Genre	woodcuts (prints) prints (visual works)
Type	Image
Language	Latin
Provenance	Rare Books and Maps Collection University of Houston Libraries Special Collections Ship of Fools Woodcuts

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Title	De corrupto ordine viuēdi pereūtibus
Alternative	Of the corrupt way to live of those who are ruined De corrupto ordine viuendi pereuntibus
Publisher	Bergmann, Johann
Date	1498
Language	Latin
Description	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. Woodcut contains constellations and planets in an astrological drawing. Inscription on image (Latin): "Anno dni, 1503. 2. Die octobris post meridiem hora nona ascēden̄. ad medium vi. climatis."
Subject	Allegories Fools and jesters Satire Folly
Place	Basel, Switzerland
Genre	woodcuts (prints) prints (visual works)
Format	1 woodcut
Type	Image
Identifier	OCLC: 16633666 PT1509.N34 1498
Provenance	Rare Books and Maps Collection University of Houston Libraries Special Collections Ship of Fools Woodcuts
Donor	The Rockwell Fund, In memory of James Rockwell
Rights	Public Domain
Related Item	https://id.lib.uh.edu/ark:/84475/do9180vs932
Digital Object ARK	ark:/84475/do5255z781m