1637 : Texts on Central Europe Bestiary
Number
1637
Shelf Marks
- Gent, Cathedral, 15
Owners before c.1550
- Raphael de Mercatellis (1492)
Commissioners
- Raphael de Mercatellis (1492)
- Clergy: Prelat
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Ecclesiastical
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1450-1500
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 280 leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 410 mm
- Width of text blocks : 295 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations :
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Mercatellis
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (with original metal furniture)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Aeneas Silvius
- etc.
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Texts on Central Europe
- 2 : Bestiary
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mercatellis
Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0552
Albert Derolez, The library of Raphael de Marcatellis, abbot of St. Bavon’s, Ghent, 1437-1508, Ghent 1979: Mercatellis, no. 29 (ill. 55, 56)
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman