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636  :  Fabulae Fabulae

Number

636


Shelf Marks

  • Aylesbury, Waddesdon Manor, James A. de Rothschild Collection, 15

Owners before c.1550

  • Raphael de Mercatellis ?

Commissioners

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

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Private

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1500
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1500 - 1509

Physical description

Measurements

  • 044 (2+40+2) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 380 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 282 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 146 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 147
  • Number of miniatures : 147
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Mercatellis

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c.
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Aesopus
  • Avianus

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Fabulae
  • 2 : Fabulae

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mercatellis

Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 366 (f.1v)

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.0555

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.282

Léon Delaissé, James Marrow & John de Wit, Illuminated manuscripts, the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (catalogue), Fribourg 1977, no. 15 (14 ill.)

Albert Derolez, The library of Raphael de Marcatellis, abbot of St. Bavon’s, Ghent, 1437-1508, Ghent 1979: Mercatellis, no. 23 (ill. 43)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman