the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

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1130 St Albans horn and cymbal (?)

   
12001200 Canterbury and 1340 Catalonia
fol 154v
13th centurymid 13th century Oxford, Bible 311v
Londoon1260 London
1260-70 Oxford

1270 Oxford

12701270 Oxford
12751275 York 65r
12751275 York 11r
between 1275 and 1320 Winchester1285 Winchester

horse1289 horse player page 152

  
late 13th centurylate 13th century York
 1275-13201275-1320 Marlborough Fol. 075r
13001300 horse [?] possibly East Anglia 1300-13101300-1310 Ramsey, Huntingdonshire [f.91r] 1310-20 East Anglia
1310-201310-20 Westminster/ East Anglia? [197r] 1310-13201310-1320 Westminster, London 194r

In a 14th century manuscript in the library of Christs College, possibly made in Lincolnshire, 'Horae'
“Border. Deer and hound above: two monsters
below play pipe and tabor, and trumpet" page 22

A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WESTERN
MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, Cambridge

[Ed. I have not seen this manuscript yet]

13171317 Peterborough
13171317 Peterborough
13101310 Norfolk
14th century14th century Norfolk
 14th century1310-1324 Norwich [125r] 14th century14th century Norfolk
1322-13251322-1325 Norwich [f.334v]
dog1324 dog player
14th century14th century Norfolk
13251325-1330 Oxford [118v]
13251325-1330 Oxford [79r]
c.1325
 c.1325 1325-30 Oxford/London? 13201320-1330 southern England [43v]
c.1325 Exeter Psalter
1316-1331 York
 1320-13301320-1330 Bible, London

13251325 East Anglia

  
13251325 East Anglia Luttrell Psalter
13261326 London [43r]
 14th century14th century London    
1330 1330 East Anglia, 1330-401330-1340 East Anglia
1335-13501335-1350 Cambridge
© The Master and Fellows of St John's College Cambridge

1340 East Anglia, [043r]

 
1340 French decretals illustrated in London (Decretals of Gregory IX, British Library)
1340f.2v
1340f.29r
 1300-1340f.42r  
1340f.57v
1340f.58
1340f.66v
 1340 f.71 f.71r
1340f.94r
1275-1325
 1340f.201v
 
13501350 Battle  plate 82

2nd half 14th century1356-1373 London f82v

1356-13731356-1373 London f19v
1360-801360-80 Pleshey Castle,
south England
 
in a band
1326
 13271326 London
 
devil taborers
1301-13501301-1350 Salisbury

13401340 demon London [f.201v]
1350-14001350 London 139v
after 1413after 1413 East England

unknown1313 devil, France

 
 
playing for dancing
13th century13th century celebrating the death of the witnesses to the apocalypse, England
1330-13401330-1340 France f. 022v - 023
19thc copy dancing14th century dance, 1871 copy ‘A History of domestic manners
and sentiments in England during the Middle Ages’ by Thomas Wright
unknown date1308 France: ‘The Dance in the Garden of Deduiz,
Romance of the Rose’ [Bodmer 79 6v]
  
 

Also see England double pipes

Europe decorative arts, Ape players


   
     
     

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