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1638  :  Bible (Biblia figurata) Collection of miniatures

Number

1638


Shelf Marks

  • Gent, Cathedral, 16 (stolen…)

Owners before c.1550

  • Raphael de Mercatellis

Commissioners

  • Raphael de Mercatellis
    • Clergy: Prelat
    • Gender : Man

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Ecclesiastical

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450-1500
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499


Physical description

Measurements

  • 123 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 395 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 280 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 : 18th c.
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

biblical

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Bible (Biblia figurata)
  • 2 : Collection of miniatures

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Walter Prevenier & Wim Blockmans, De Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1982 [also published in English and French: The Burgundian Netherlands, Cambridge 1986; Les Pays-Bas bourguignons, Antwerp 1982], ill. 086 (f.36), 91 (f.14), 145 (f.42), 169 (f.50v)

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.0061, 459, 551, 562

Anne-Margreet As-Vijvers, ‘Manuscript Production in a Carmelite Convent: The Case of Cornelia van Wulfschkercke’, Sandra Hindman & James H. Marrow (eds.), Books of Hours Reconsidered, London-Turnhout 2013, p. 279-296, p. 286

Alain Arnould, ‘The iconographical sources of a composite manuscript from the library of Raphael de Mercatellis’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 51(1988), 197-209

Albert Derolez, The library of Raphael de Marcatellis, abbot of St. Bavon’s, Ghent, 1437-1508, Ghent 1979: Mercatellis, no. 57 (ill. 97, 99, 100, 101, 102)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman