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1656  :  Margarita philosophica

Number

1656


Shelf Marks

  • Gent, UB, 7

Owners before c.1550

  • Raphael de Mercatellis

Commissioners

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

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : 1505
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1500 - 1509

Physical description

Measurements

  • 365 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 395 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 290 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 26 miniatures and also numerous drawings
  • Total number of illustrations : 26
  • Number of miniatures : 26
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Cornelia van Wulfschkercke
  • M Mercatellis

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 1976 (the original binding was in red silk)
  • Dating : 1900-2000


Content

Genre

scientific

Authors

  • Gregorius Reisch

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Margarita philosophica

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. 161 (f.237)

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. 105 (f.2), p.107 (f.312v), p.116 (f.104), p.228 (f.86v)

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.0551

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. 290

Albert Derolez, The library of Raphael de Marcatellis, abbot of St. Bavon’s, Ghent, 1437-1508, Ghent 1979: Mercatellis, no. 38 (ill. 61, 64, 66)

Online Informations and images

Digitisation : http://adore.ugent.be/view/archive.ugent.be:403E45D4-8200-11E3-9D7A-455ED43445F2

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman