A shepherd playing recorder

Unknown


Item type:
furniture
Date of creation:
15th century
Technique / Medium:
wood

    Item location

  • Exeter Cathedral (Devon, England)
    [Museum inv. no.: Carving can be found on a bench]

Description

Recorder, played by one of the shepherds at the Annunciation. On a bench end from unknown source.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Recorder [4039]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 62, plate 108. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4244