Book of Hours - M. 919, fol. 176r

Egerton Master (active ca. 1405-1420)

Item type:

manuscript, codex, scroll

Date of creation:

ca. 1418

Height:

20.3 cm  (8 in.)

Width:

14.0 cm  (5 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

vellum

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

Description

Within ivy rinceaux, a naked child plays a blue triangle while riding a fantastical duck-like bird. The triangle has two jingling rings.

Iconclass

48C7344(TRIANGLE)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle (with rings)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Berry, Mark. Index of triangle iconography (Bowling Green, Kentucky: Living Sound Publications, 2017).

RIdIM record id

11398

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