Citole

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1275
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • Lincoln Cathedral (Lincolnshire, England)
    Angel choir, north 10

Description

Angel playing citole with four strings, plectrum played, the left thumb plucking a drone string.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Citole [3335]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 5, plate 7. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4127