A woodcut and simple border from the first edition of Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools) —from Basel in 1494.

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A woodcut and simple border from the first edition of Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools) —from Basel in 1494. The illustration shows a scholar with glasses, a nightcap, a turned-up fool's cap off to the side by his shoulder reading a book that rests on a double-sided desk. He is frightening away with a fan the flies from the open book.

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Size: 3674px × 4830px
Photo credit: © Ivy Close Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 1400s, 15th-century, bookworm, brand, brandt, brant, cap, das, fool, fools, german, medieval, narrenschiff, poet, satire, satirical, scholar, sebastian, ship