Medieval Music

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abridurif:Guido d’Arezzo (992-1040) / La “main guidonienne”In Medieval music, the Guidonian hand was

fashion pigJean Froissart, Chroniques, Bruges ca 1470-1472.BL, Harley 4379, fol. 19v

Happy Birthday to Hildegard of Bingen, the rock star of the Middle Ages.September 16th, 1098

upennmanuscripts:LJS 295 -[Kitāb-i Advār]This manuscript features a Persian translation of al-Urma

praising the lordPsalter and hours, Avignon ca. 1330-1340Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 121,

harpistantiphonal, Cambrai or Tournai c. 1260-1270LA, Getty Museum, Ms. 44/Ludwig VI 5, p. 115

shredsandpatches:skeleton-richard:ooldtunes:One of the world’s most famous medieval music manuscript

melancholic pussy-cat book of hours, France 15th century.Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,

MEDIEVAL LOLCATS 2Queen Mary Psalter. London 1310-1320.British Library, Royal 2 B VII, fol. 188, 194

heart-shaped songbookChansonnier de Jean de Montchenu, Savoy ca. 1475BnF, Rothschild 2973

zegherevanmale:Initial ‘S’ - Chansonnier de Zeghere van Male. Cambrai, Bibl. mun., ms. 0126, B f. 01

bishop and nun‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th centuryBL, Stowe 17, fol. 49r

Hercules, stahp!Raoul Lefèvre, Histoires de Troyes, Cognac ca. 1500BnF, Français 252, fol. 99r

lutenistPontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms

but you don’t really care for music, do you?King David dancing before the Ark of the Covenant&

lesfoudres:French Medieval Song Book

goat musicianpsalter, England 13th centuryBL, Harley 5102, fol. 59r

the lute player and the harpistFroissart’s Chronicles, Bruges ca. 1470-1475.Paris, BnF, França

Catholic Church. Gradual : manuscript, [ca. 1300].MS Typ 963Houghton Library, Harvard University

This fragment of a music manuscript survives today only because it was used to line the binding of a

bagpiping dogbook of hours, England ca. 1300Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.102, fol. 75v

Illustration from an 11th century treatise on music.The use of these particular colours,especially t

masked bagpipes‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506BL, Add 18852, fol. 299r

circa 1300, Cataloniadetails of a ceiling panel:1. a couple playing a board game2. a musician (male)

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