Symphony and angel

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1325
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • St. John the Evangelist Minster (Beverley, Yorkshire, England)
    Nave 16

Description

An angel is playing a symphony (hurdy-gurdy), with keys continuing beyond the wheel and with the crank on the opposite end from the wheel.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hurdy-gurdy [3305]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 34, plate 68. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4203