The book Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools) was a popular satirical work by the humanist writer Sebastian Brant (1457–1521) that describes a ship of individuals representing different classes and professions sailing to a fool’s paradise. The text makes fun of corruption, vice, and vulgarity in modern society, and was an immediate best seller. Among the contributors to the first edition of 1494 was the young artist Albrecht Dürer, who during his journeyman years produced woodcut designs of great inventiveness for a number of major publishers. This group of loose pages derives from a 1506 or 1507 edition with the Latin title Navis Stultifera that included a new commentary to Brant’s text by the French scholar Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462–1535).