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Of them that dyspyse euerlastynge ioye, and settyth thynges transytory before thynges eternall and euerlastynge,...

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Of them that dyspyse euerlastynge ioye, and settyth thynges transytory before thynges eternall and euerlastynge, illustration from Alexander Barclay's English translation of 'The Ship of Fools', from an edition published in 1874 (engraving)
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German School, (15th century) (after) / German
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Date
1874 AD (C19th AD)
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Alexander Barclay (c.1476-1552) Scottish born English poet, translated Sebastian Brandt's (1457-1521) Das Narrenschiff, as 'The Ship of Fools' in 1509. Image is a facsimile of the original German woodcut of 1497 and shows a fool with a set of scales, weighing the human world against the cosmos. Foolishness of valuing transitory things against the everlasting.

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