# Raphael de Mercatellis

> Raphael de Mercatellis, also known as Raphael of Burgundy, was a church official, imperial counsellor 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. While pursuing a career within the Catholic church, and particularly after becoming abbot of Saint Bavo's Abbey in Ghent, he assembled a collection of lavish illuminated and decorated manuscripts. The library he created is of historical importance as the earliest library in the Low Countries containing a significant number of Renaissance humanist books. Sixty-five books from his library have been traced to collections worldwide, making it an unusually intact medieval book collection attributable to a single owner.

*Roman Catholic abbot*

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## Identity
- **Born:** 1463
- **Died:** 1508-08-03
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
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## Sources
- [Raphael de Mercatellis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_de_Mercatellis)
- [Rafael de Borgoña](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_de_Borgo%C3%B1a)
- [Raphaël de Bourgogne](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_de_Bourgogne)
- [Rafaël van Bourgondië](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafa%C3%ABl_van_Bourgondi%C3%AB)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2286159)

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