The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 274
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. 206 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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