The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 256
Fig. 171.—Organ with single Key-board of the Fourteenth Century.(Miniature from a Latin Psalter, No. 175, Bibl. Imp., Paris.) The organ, which, as we have seen, was at first of a portable nature,in some cases resumed its original dimensions (Fig. 172). It was thensometimes called simply portatif… … Fig. 172.—Portable Organ of the Fifteenth Century.(Miniature in Vincent de Beauvais Miroir Historial, MS. in the Bibl. Imp., Paris.) (choir-organ). Raphael, in one of his famous pictures, represents St. Ceciliasinging sacred hymns, and accompanying herself on a choir-organ. 2o6 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.…
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