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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
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman