Leaf from Book of Hours: Matins Lesson 5, Initial V with Haloed Monk with Rod and a Man Playing a Vielle in the Margin
Music and dancing were important social rituals during the medieval era and provided opportunities for men and women to mingle. Here, a man plays a stringed instrument, probably a vielle (an early form of the fiddle), while a woman across the page (folio 20v) looks up at him a...
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Acquired by the Figinne family, Huy, Belgium, likey before 1400 [1]. Acquired by Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann Collection, Paris, late 19th or early 20th century [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1905; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] fols. 1v and 2r list Figinne family members with death dates spanning 1410-1604[2] GE bookplate inscribed ""No. 390"" formerly on the front flyleaf
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