1666 : Vitae parallelae
Number
1666
Shelf Marks
- Gent, UB, 109
Owners before c.1550
- Raphael de Mercatellis (1492)
Commissioners
- Raphael de Mercatellis (1492)
- Clergy: Prelat
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent
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Date
- Date details : 1492
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 247 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 365 mm
- Width of text blocks : 265 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 : 1977 (the original binding was in green silk)
- Dating : 1900-2000
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Plutarchus
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Vitae parallelae
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mercatellis, ill.. 95 (f.3)
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. 290 (f.72), p.299 (f.11v), p.329 (f.166)
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.0550
G. Declercq (ed.), Ganda et Blandinium. De Gentse abdijen van Sint-Pieters en Sint-Baafs, exhib. cat., Ghent 1997, p. 159 (ill. 61v)
Albert Derolez, The library of Raphael de Marcatellis, abbot of St. Bavon’s, Ghent, 1437-1508, Ghent 1979: Mercatellis, no. 09 (ill. 10, 15)
Online Informations and images
Digitisation : http://adore.ugent.be/view/archive.ugent.be:5CE63F54-73DA-11E3-95BB-FF35D43445F2