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Anthropomorphic Hybrid Musicians

Date: first quarter of the 14th century
Location: Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, Ms 288
Author: Anonymous
Technique and materials: Illuminated manuscript
Dimensions: Not documented
Provenance:

Psalterium Ambianense

In this illuminated text, produced around the first quarter of the fourteenth century, anthropomorphic musical hybrids are depicted, among which we recognise a small portative organ on the left and a cymbal on the right.

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