1634 : Bible (Biblia figurata)
Number
1634
Shelf Marks
- Gent, Cathedral, 10
Owners before c.1550
- Raphael de Mercatellis
Commissioners
- Raphael de Mercatellis
- Clergy: Prelat
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Ecclesiastical
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1480-1500
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 181 leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 400 mm
- Width of text blocks : 285 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
biblical
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Bible (Biblia figurata)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 629
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mercatellis
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 8.53 (f.55)
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. 090, 184ab, 215, 286, etc. (f.26, 50, 52, 53ab, 54, 56, 61, 63, 86)
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, 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. 291
Albert Derolez, The library of Raphael de Marcatellis, abbot of St. Bavon’s, Ghent, 1437-1508, Ghent 1979: Mercatellis, no. 56 (ill. 91, 95, 96, 98)
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File 190/145-8 (142 photos of 141 miniatures)