Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Wien); Gilhofer, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat; Gilhofer & Ranschburg: Katalog (Nr. 215): A fine collection of early printed books of the XVth and XVIth century: including the following choice pieces mostly bound in original bindings The canon of Avicenna, Padua 1479, The Eggerstein and the Rusch-Bible, both ab. 1468 ... : illustrated XVIth century books including the first Bible in Greek . (Wien: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1929)

INCUNABULA 15

27 (BRANT, SEB.) Fagifacetus sen de facetia et moribus mensae (by
Rein eras and transl. in German verses by Seb. Brant). (Basel,
Michael Furter) 1490.
4to. Goth, letter, 36 lines, 20 unn. leaves; some woodcut-
initials. Brown mor. Frs. 1900.—-
Hain*-Cop. 69OO. Proctor 7719. Brit. Mus. Cat. Ill, 78. Goedeke I, 383, I.
Simon, Bibl. bacdiica 135.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of a rare and curious little poem, very
interesting and important from the medical and especially
dietetic point of view and also for the history of civilisation.
Fagifacetus — „Tisdizudit” — i. e. the rules of decorum to be observed at table.
The author of the book is perhaps one Rein er us or Johann von Garland e,
the very good, sometimes a little rude German verses are by Seb. Brant, the
famous author of the Ship of Fools. The Fagifacetus is his first printed work.
At end: “Translatum in teuthonicum per Seb. Brant”.
Some interesting titles of the strophes are as follows: De potu et vino.
De ministerio pincernatus. De credentia vini. Prius tergendum os atque bi-
batur. Cautela sumendi cibos. De tussi et screatione in mensa. De convivatione
cum mulieribus . . . etc. etc.
Fine copy, slightly stained. A nice pen-drawing on eg, a naked woman
sitting on a border, below some beasts and birds.
Very rare. The first dated book of Furter’s press.
No copy in U. S. A. acc. to Census.
See Reproduction, page 14.


Woodcuts from No. 29. Brant, Stultifera navis. Augsburg 1497.

GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.