The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 523
er was furnished with fewer than ten, or more than twenty,strings, differed essentially from the lyre and the cithern by the sounding-board being j)laced at the top of the instrument. Psalteries were made ofa round, square, oblong, or buckler-shaj)ed form (Fig. 405) ; and sometimesthe sounding-box… … Fig. 404.—Psalter> to produce a prolonged sound. Ninth Century.(MS. in the Bibl. Nat., Paris.) all kinds of stringed instruments. The shape of the cithern, which in thedays of St. Jerome resembled a Greek delta (A), varied in different countries,as is proved by the epithets—harharica, Teutonica,…
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