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| Keywords: Queen Mary Psalter centaur playing citole.jpg en Centaur playing a citole from the w Queen Mary Psalter This image is important for showing the neck with perspective showing that it was not the thick neck of some citoles Cropped version of the Wikipedia image https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/File Queen_Mary_Psalter_centaur_and_monkey_playing_citole_and_trumet jpg 1320-01-01 https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/File Queen_Mary_Psalter_centaur_and_monkey_playing_citole_and_trumet jpg author other versions http //www bl uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN ASP Size mid IllID 53635 From Queen Mary psalter Wikipedia article The psalter was perhaps produced c 1310 “1320 by one main scribe and unusually for a work so heavily illuminated a single artist 4 who is now known as the Queen Mary Master It was probably made in London and possibly for Isabella of France queen of Edward II of England 5 though there is no agreement on the matter 4 For the next two hundred years its history is not known A note in a sixteenth-century hand indicates that it was owned by an Earl of Rutland and though it does not identify the earl it appears likely that it was Henry Manners A Protestant he was imprisoned in May 1553 which may explain how the psalter landed in the possession of Queen Mary a second note in Latin explains that the psalter was impounded by Baldwin Smith a customs officer and thus remained in England 6 It remained in the possession of Queen Mary and her successors until 1757 when George II donated the Old Royal Library to the British Museum 3 PD-Art Queen Mary Psalter 1310-1320 - BL Royal MS 2 B VII Citole Instruments in art Medieval miniatures of musicians Medieval miniatures of centaurs Mythological creatures Lute family instruments Guitar family instruments String instruments in art | ||||
