1658 : Monotesseron (vol. 1)
Number
1658
Shelf Marks
- Gent, UB, 11 (vol. 1)
Owners before c.1550
- Raphael de Mercatellis
Commissioners
- Raphael de Mercatellis
- Clergy: Prelat
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1504
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1500 - 1509
Physical description
Measurements
- 316 leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 495 mm
- Width of text blocks : 350 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 70
- Number of miniatures : 70
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Cornelia van Wulfschkercke
- M Mercatellis
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 1977 (the original binding was in red velvet, with metal furniture)
- Dating : 1900-2000
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- Jean Gerson
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Monotesseron (vol. 1)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 628
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.0562
Alain Arnould, De la production de miniatures de Cornelia van Wulfschkercke au couvent des carmélites de Sion à Bruges, Brussels 1998, no. 04a (ill. 35: f.172v)
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. 289
Albert Derolez, The library of Raphael de Marcatellis, abbot of St. Bavon’s, Ghent, 1437-1508, Ghent 1979: Mercatellis, no. 49a (ill. 81, 84, 90)
Online Informations and images
Digitisation : http://adore.ugent.be/view/archive.ugent.be:9E7AF908-9B23-11E3-91FF-8E12D53445F2