Wooden angel with a gittern

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1415
Technique / Medium:
wood carving

    Item location

  • St. Nicholas Church (Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England)
    Wooden angel on a roof beam, south 11

Description

Gittern or small lute with 7 strings, plectrum played.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Gittern [3365]
Lute [3394]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 7, plate 13. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4133