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1662  :  Carmen paschale Evangelium Monotesseron

Number

1662


Shelf Marks

  • Gent, UB, 17

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 : c.1500 (before 1504)
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1500 - 1509

Physical description

Measurements

  • 283 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 410 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 290 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 137
  • Number of miniatures : 137
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Cornelia van Wulfschkercke (13 miniatures)
  • M Mercatellis

Material

Parchment

Binding

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


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Sedulius
  • Juvencus
  • Jean Gerson
  • etc.

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Carmen paschale
  • 2 : Evangelium
  • 3 : Monotesseron

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mercatellis, ill.. 97 (f.161)

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. 05 (ill. 34: f.281v)

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.282

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 266

Albert Derolez, The library of Raphael de Marcatellis, abbot of St. Bavon’s, Ghent, 1437-1508, Ghent 1979: Mercatellis, no. 41 (ill. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74)

Online Informations and images

Digitisation : http://adore.ugent.be/view/archive.ugent.be:53B92776-82CA-11E3-A7CE-5BE9D43445F2

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman