Berner Psalmenbuch (Lobwasser Psalter)

Unknown (Swiss)

Item type:

manuscript, codex, scroll

Date of creation:

1603

Technique / Medium:

watercolor / aquarelle on paper

Place of creation:

Bern (Schweiz)

Additional titles

Description

In the frame of the frontispiece at the top: 6 putti playing psaltery, cittern, viola da gamba, lute, harp, violin and one putto in the center singing from a book; on the floor several wind instruments and a lute; at the left side: King David with harp, at the right side: Miriam with lyre; at the bottom: 3 putti blowing wind instruments (two cornetts and a looped trumpet), one playing a positive organ with an assistant treating the bellows, one blowing a shawm, one playing a viola da gamba and one a triangle; next to the wind instruments more wind instruments on the floor; next to the organ a side drum on the floor.

People as subjects

David, King of Israel (Musician)
Miriam (Biblical figure) (Musician)

Iconclass

11I62(DAVID)32
David as musician, usually playing the harp
92D19164
cupids together with attributes of the arts, sciences, etc.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Psaltery [3677]
Cittern [3106]
Viola da gamba [3604]
Lute [3394]
Harp [3285]
Violin [3573]
Lyre [3501]
Trumpet [4446] (straight and looped)
Positive organ [2268]
Triangle [3005]
Shawm [4258]
Side drum [2729]
Cornett [3868]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

De Capitani, Francois. Musik in Bern (Bern: Historischer Verein, 1993) 34.

Notes

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

RIdIM record id

4406