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

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 marginal #musician is a strange hybrid creature (dog/man/snail/something else?) playing the #rebec.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours
Bibliotheque Municipale de Nantes, Ms 21

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #illuminatedmanuscript

TheLeavesBeGreene
The Consort of Musick
AnthonyRooley #lute
CatherineMackintosh viol #rebec
TrevorJones viol
JamesTyler #cittern #viol
MartynHill tenor
PeterBale narrator

The #Renaissance of English music
woodcut of "TheGreteHerbal" printed by PeterTreveris, 2nd ed.1529
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Two marginal #musicians from the same page. The #rebec player has a blue instrument, but the other instrument is the normal colour.
From a #15thCentury #BookofHours, BNF Arsenal. Ms-434 réserve
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #illuminatedmanuscript
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The first set of marginal #musicians for 2025...
#Angels playing #lute, #rebec, #psaltery and #cornet.
From Horae (Troyes), c1475-1525
Bibliothèque nationale de France. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Ms-651 réserve

#earlymusic #iconography #bookofhours #illuminatedmanuscript

Yesterday's office.
So lovely to play #Tudor #music at the NPG yesterday evening.

#earlymusic #tudors #heritage #museum #nationalportraitgallery #musicianlife #musicianslife #historicalinterpretation #historythroughmusic #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #lute #lutenist #recorder #flute #rebec

A shot from #Firebrand, showing #AliciaVikander as #KatherineParr, with some blurry #earlymusic going on behind her.
#JudeLaw as #HenryVIII, playing the #virginals. I'm playing the #rebec in the background.
#tudor #tudors #lute

Musical angels playing lute and rebec.
Detail from a panel by Lorenzo Fasolo showing the Madonna and Child with Angels, c1485-95.
Ashmolean Museum

#earlymusic
#renaissance
#lute
#rebec
#angels
#angel

Something for #StCeciliasDay:

A detail from an #15thCentury Italian choirbook showing an illuminated letter C with #StCecilia playing the psaltery, surrounded by other female musicians playing #lute and #rebec.
V&A Museum

#otd
#onthisday
#earlymusic
#illuminatedmanuscript
#renaissance