King David with harp and his musicians

Unknown (Swiss)


Item type:
manuscript, codex, scroll
Date of creation:
ca. 1350
Technique / Medium:
colours on parchment
Place of creation:
Zürich (Schweiz)

Additional titles

Weltchronik des Rudolf von Ems [King David]

    Item location

  • Zentralbibliothek Zürich
    [Museum inv. no.: Ms. Rh. 15, fol. 218v]Codex Rheinau

Description

King David playing harp (with animal head and large resonance body with large opening in top plate) supported by other 5 musicians: two fiddles, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and harp (different shape).

People as subjects

David, King of Israel (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Fiddle [3142]
Hurdy-gurdy [3305]
Psaltery [3677] (two psalteries, one in harp shape)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Theil, Edmund. Weltchronik, Rudolf von Ems: Karl der Grosse, der Stricker (Bozen: Athesia, 1986).

Ganz, Paul. Geschichte der Kunst in der Schweiz (Basel: Schwabe, 1960) 208.

Notes

Research Project Hochschule Luzern-Musik, Switzerland (Antonio Baldassarre, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, Dorothea Baumann)

RIdIM record id

4292