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
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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)