It's #Pesach, so here are some bonus #marginalmusicians. #Trumpeters at each corner, and a band playing at the bottom.
From the Barcelona #Hagaddah, #14thCentury.
BL Add 14761
#earlymusic #passover #rebec #cittern #bagpipes #trumpet #illuminatedmanuscript

Today's #marginalmusicians (#bagpiper, #lutenist & #trumpeter) are all unfinished outlines, with the colours still to be added.
From L'Ystoire du tres sainct Charlesmayne, 1475-1500
BnF, Français 4970

#ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #bagpipe #lute #15thCentury

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 is #internationalbagpipeday so here are a few #15thCentury marginal #bagpipers - #monkeys and strange creatures - from the Chansonnier cordiforme de Montchenu, c1470-1480
BNF Rothschild 2973
#earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #chansonnier #notation #sheetmusic #iconography #marginalmusicians

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

#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #15thC #renaissance

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

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

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

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

#manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #renaissance #15thCentury #iconography

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
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #iconography #marginalia #15thCentury

Today's #marginalmusicians (some angelic, some human, some just strange) come from the Llangattock #bookofHours, c1450-60
From Getty Ms. Ludwig IX 7 (83.ML.103)
Music: In Peascod Time from our CD passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/in-pea...

#earlymusic #marginalia #manuscriptmonday #angels #15thC #harp

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

from #Passamezzo
#marginalmusicians playing the lute and singing fr ptbks... FateLachesis measures out thread of their lives...at top viol lute organ... w 7 wind inst
Cipriano de Rore
"Da pacem Domine"1559
www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.p...
Choir of QueensCollegeOxford
/OwenRees
youtu.be/8DRpuTkdpZ8?...