Man playing gittern

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1400
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • St. John the Evangelist Church (Elkstone, Gloucestershire, England)
    Stone figure on the sloping cap of a tower buttress.

Description

Gittern with 3 strings, many dots for a large rose covering almost the full width of the belly, plectrum held between the forefinger and middle finger.

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) 43, plate 83. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4219