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
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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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)