APSEL (Absel), Wilhelmus van. - Pious Carthusian writer, b. at Breda (Holland) at the beginning of the 16th century; d. at the charterhouse of La Chapelle, on 4 August 1471. He entered the charterhouse of La Chapelle, near Herinnes-les-Enghien (Belgium) around 1430; and he was prior of that of Bruges from 1462 to 1465. Most learned and of rare virtues, he also distinguished himself in the art of engraving. Arnoldo Beeltsens, in the Chronica domus Capellae, wrote: « Fuit vir magnae scientiae et egregius librorum ligator atque operarius in aere et lignis ». He was the oldest engraver of the Flemish school; he engraved not only on copper, but also on wood.
Among his numerous manuscript works, the following are worthy of special mention: Tractatus de amore Sponsi super Cantica Cantic; De amore Sponsae in Canticis Canticorum, in the VaticanLibrary (in Migne, Diction. des Manuscrits, II, coll. 1135-1222); Tractatus elegantissimus ad semper candidam coeli reginam Mariam; Opusculum de vera pace; Tractatus super oratione Dominica; Super Genesim, Psalterium et Canticum Canticorum.
Bibliography5 worksTh. Peeters (Petreius) - A. Lemire (Miraeus), s. v. in Bibliotheca cartusiana, Cologne 1609, pp. 115-17; St. Autore, Scriptores s. Ordinis C
BIBL.: Th. Peeters (Petreius) - A. Lemire (Miraeus), s. v. in Bibliotheca cartusiana, Cologne 1609, pp. 115-17; St. Autore, Scriptores s. Ordinis Cartusensis, (manuscript of the Grande Chartreuse), II, pp. 204-206; F. V. Goethals, Lectures relatives à l'histoire des sciences, des arts, des lettres, des moeurs et de la politique en Belgique..., I, Brussels 1837, pp. 23-24; L. Levasseur, Ephemerides Ord. Cart., III, part 3, pp. 20-21; Chronique de la Chartreuse de la Chapelle, ed. E. Lamalle, Louvain 1932.
Costa, Gabriele. “Apsel (Absel), wilhelmus van.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1717. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/apsel-absel-wilhelmus-van.
MLA
Costa, Gabriele. “Apsel (Absel), wilhelmus van.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1717. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/apsel-absel-wilhelmus-van.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_apsel_absel_wilhelmus_van,
author = {Costa, Gabriele},
title = {Apsel (Absel), wilhelmus van},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1717},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/apsel-absel-wilhelmus-van}
}
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