Today's #marginalmusicians are three strange hybrid creatures playing the #psaltery.
From a French #bookofhours, c1415.
Heures dites de Joseph Bonaparte
#BNF

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #psaltery #fiifteenthcentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

Today's #marginalmusicians are a #bear playing the #lute, and an #owl holding a sheet of #music for a #boar to sing.
From Breviarium abbatis pars hiemalis, 1493/4
Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Sal. IXc

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Today's #marginalmusicians are playing #recorder for dancers.
Also illuminated initial, of Florentine #composer & #organist #AndreadaFirenze.
#Squarcialupi Codex, #14thCentury.
Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana: I-Fl MS Mediceo Palatino 87

#ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #medieval

medieval monkey playing pipe and tabor

Medieval manuscript with fox playing pipe and tabor

Today's #marginalmusicians (a #monkey and a #fox) are playing #pipeandtabor.
From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80
BNF Français 1654

#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #iconography #musicalanimals

A monster with a chicken's head with three horns, a bearded human face on its back, leaps out of a coffin to attack a man

A monster emerges from a coffin to attack someone in this Welsh translation of the Travels of John de Mandeville.

#marginaliamonday

Today's marginal #musician is a #skeleton playing the #lute.
From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80.
BNF Français 1654

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A drawing of male head wearing a hat with an arm and hand pointing at written text.

Imagine your documents were marked up for editing with this guy. Terrifying! MS.B.2.25 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...

#marginaliamonday
#medievalsky

Today's #marginalmusicians are #muses, playing music in honour of Albrecht V of Bavaria.
Detail from #CiprianodelRore's motet Mirabar solito in an #illuminated #choirbook, c1559
Munich, BSB Mus. Ms. B I

#earlymusic #earlymodern #16thCentury #renaissance #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #lute

2nd February is Candlemas Feast, it marks Christ being presented at the temple. Candles are blessed for the year. It also marks mid winter, half way between winter solstice and the equinox. B.11.3
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...

#medievalmonday
#marginaliamonday

It's #Candlemas today, so the #marginalmusician is a detail from a page showing the Presentation at the Temple in a #15thCentury #bookofhours. A creature (half man, half something else?) playing the #trumpet.
BNF NAL 3110

#earlymusic #MarginaliaMonday #ManuscriptMonday

Today's #marginalmusician is a monstrous creature playing the #lute.
From La #DanseMacabre, c1500-1510
BNF Français 995

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Todays #marginalmusicians are #monkeys in flowers playing the #rebec.
From Heures de Jeanne de France, 1440-1460.
BNF NAL 3244
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #15thCentury #bookofhours #iconography #bowedstrings #marginalia

Many moons later and I finally got around to painting him (!!!)
#marginaliamonday #miniaturepainting

Today's #marginalmusicians are playing the #triangle and the #psaltery.
From Trésor de sapience, Bruges, c1470-80.
Walters Art Museum W307

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Today's #marginalmusician is a #lutenist sitting on a branch.
From a #15thCentury German #Gradual, c1450
Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E M 64:13
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #lute #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 22
A marginal musician playing the #shawm.
Detail from a page from a #15thCentury #Gradual, showing the #AdorationoftheMagi.
Florence, #BibliotecaMediceaLaurenziana, Edili 150

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Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 15
Today's #marginal musician is playing #bagpipes.
Detail from a page showing the Annunciation to the Shepherds in a #15thCentury #bookofhours.
MS Lat 253. Houghton Library, Harvard University, c1490

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #bagpipe

Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 8

Marginal #musician playing #pipeandtabor. Detail from a page showing the #Nativity, in a #15thCentury French #BookofHours.
From the Spitz Hours, c1420.
#GettyMuseum ms 57 (94.ML.26)

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday

An excellent manicule for #MarginaliaMonday!

Some rather bizarre #marginalmusicians. Creatures playing a #broom, #bellows, and a hunting #horn. Also an #ape playing the #harp.
From the Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies, 1464
@gettymuseum.bsky.social
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Today's #marginalmusicians are a #mermaid playing the #harp and a #merman playing the #trumpet.
From #Boccaccio's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, c 1413-1415
#GettyMuseum

#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #15thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #medievalmanuscript

A ?rabbit playing a #bladderpipe while two other ?rabbits dance.
Leaf from a #psalter and #prayerbook, c1524
James Parmelee Fund, Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Today's #marginal #musicians are blue #angels playing golden stringed instruments - #fiddle, #psaltery & #harp.
More (not blue) angels in the main image, #singing & playing #lute & #recorder.
Coetivy Hours, c1443-5
Chester Beatty W 082
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illumination

A tiny drawing of a face in profile with a big chin and pointed nose marks the text.

I small drawing of a face in the margin of a manuscript to mark part of the text.

MSS B.1.20, Instead of manicules, the reader of this 13th c manuscript used tiny faces to mark interesting points in the text. #marginaliamonday

mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...

Today's marginal #musicians are playing the #lute and singing from partbooks.
Detail from Cipriano de Rore's Da pacem Domine, in a lavish #choirbook from 1559.
BSB Mus. ms. B(1.
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Today's #marginalmusician is a rather indistinct #lutenist.
Opposite an image of David with a #harp.
From an #illuminatedmanuscript in the National Library of the Czech Republic, iii.h.37, c1500

#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday
#earlymusic #lute #earlymodern

Today's marginal #musician is playing the #bagpipes.
From a #15thCentury history of #Troy.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Pal.Lat.1962

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Two drawings of jugs in the bottom margin under manuscript text.

Is it coffee time yet? MSS R.9.17
See the whole manuscript here: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R...
#marginaliaMonday

Today's #marginal #musician is a #fool playing #pipeandtabor.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours, c1440-1460
Gent. Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 186

#MarginaliaMonday
#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript

Todays #marginal #musician is playing the #organ.
From the Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, c1466-77
Austrian National Library, Codex Vindobon. 1856

#organist #15thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #bookofhours #renaissance #marginalia #earlymusic