the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe

Europe iconography

earliest images


1130 St Albans Psalter, England, horn and cymbal (?) 12th century possible12th century church of Santiago de la Corona  
Zaragoza, Spain [possible]
1050-12001050-1200 monkey on a chain held by taborer, Dienné, France

 

1129-11711129-1171 England

12th century
"... At your feasts you have harp and lute, tabor and pipe and wine,
but have no eyes for the work of the Lord..."

'The Letters of Abelard and Heloise' by Peter Abelard, Heloise, Michael Clanchy and Betty Radice (2004) page 175

1220-12401220-1240 Italian (Sicily) image illustrating
a translated early Egyptian manuscript [12v]
1220-12701220-1270 dance of death, France
Cantiga1240-70 Castile, Spain
13th century
13th century
13th century manuscript, Florence, Italy
 
1243-1246 Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux, Arras, France

line ending

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1244-1254 Paris, France
12501250 Bruges, Belgium


1255 poem, Austria:
Verse 485:
“A flutist was the next to come
who beat with skill upon a drum.”

’Service of Ladies’ by Ulrich von Liechtenstein

1260-70 Oxford, England
c.1260 1250-1275 France
1255-65 France


c.1260c.1260 stone carving, portal to Church
of our Lady, Trier
, Germany
12681268 Bible, Catalonia, Spain

1275-1325 Toulouse, France

player1270 Oxford England
1275-1300 NE France
1280-1299 Amiens, France
taborer 1280-1299 Amiens, France
(horn and tabor?)

1275-1300 NW France

1282-1305
Padua,
Italy

1275-1300 Paris, France

13th century13th century
statue (restored)
Maison des Musiciens, Reims
13th century13th century angel sculpture
Bayonne
Cathedral
c.1280c.1280 psalter facsimile, horse-headed hybrid
Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy
12801280 France 2v [possible]
12801280 France 6v
12801280 France 9r
12801280 France 36v
 

 

 


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