The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 281
teen metallic strings either of gold or silver, which were playedupon by means of a small bow of wood, ivory, or horn (Fig. 184); subse-quently the strings were made more slender, the number being increased toas many as twenty-two; the three angles of the sounding-box were cut off,and holes were… … Fig. 185.—Performer on the Psalterion. Fourteenth Century. (MS. No. 703 in the Bibl. Imp. of Paris.) the strings either with the fingers of the two hands, or with a pen orplectrum (Fig. 185). This instrument, which in the representations of poetsand painters never failed to figure in celestial…
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