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Raphael de Mercatellis, also known as Raphael of Burgundy (1437 – 3 August 1508), was a church official, imperial counsellor [ de] and bibliophile. He was the illegitimate son of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy and a woman of Venetian origins, the wife of a merchant. He was born in Bruges.
24 de mar. de 2017 · Eventually, the end of the fifteenth century saw affluent nobles and clergymen, such as Raphael de Mercatellis, establishing the first exclusively humanist libraries in Northern Europe. Mercatellis was the patron of Commentaries on Plato (MS Hunter 206), one of the few Northern
They are so-named for their most notable patron Raphaël de Mercatellis (1437–1508), an illegitimate son of Philip the Good of Burgundy who served as abbot of Saint Bavo in Ghent and became the most important humanistic bibliophile in the Low Countries.
Raphael de Mercatellis was abbot of the abbey from 1478, and used money from the abbey to commission lavish illuminated manuscripts. In 1540, Charles V ordered the destruction of the abbey. A coercion castle, with its cannons directed at Ghent, was built on the location of the abbey. References
Published as a companion to the exhibition 'De bibliotheek van Raphaël de Marcatellis (1437-1508)', organized at the University Library of Ghent from 17 September to 26 October 1979 in honour of Professor Dr. K. G. van Acker Review: J.J.G. ALEXANDER, Medium Aevum, 50 (1981), pp. 324-325
- Albert Derolez
- 1979
Early humanism in Flanders : new data and observations on the library of Abbot Raphael de Mercatellis ( †1508). In: De Smet R, editor. Les Humanistes et leur bibliothèquen : humanists and their Libraries : actes du Colloque international Proceedings of the International Conference, Bruxelles, 26-28 août 1999.
12 de dic. de 2012 · December 12, 2012. Rokeghem Hours (Use of Rome), Belgian, Bruges, c. 1500, in Latin and Dutch, bound illuminated manuscript on parchment, 2 large and 16 small miniatures by the Masters of Raphael de Mercatellis, 7 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/16 inches closed.
