Gittern or lute

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
1380
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • St. Mary the Virgin Church (Ware, Herts, England)
    Relief on font

Description

Gittern with 4 strings, or possibly a narrow lute since it has a turned-back head.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Gittern [3365]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 12, plate 27. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4156