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| Keywords: Queen Mary Psalter grotesques playing citole and horn.jpg en British Museum image Royal 2 B VII f 192 Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two grotesques one playing a citole and one playing a horned instrument with an inhabited initial 'D' eus with a lion at its centre 1320-01-01 http //www bl uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record asp MSID 6467 CollID 16 NStart 20207 the Queen Mary Master other versions http //www bl uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN ASP Size mid IllID 53145 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-old-70-1923 Queen Mary Psalter 1310-1320 - BL Royal MS 2 B VII Citole Medieval miniatures of musicians String instruments in art String instruments Lute family instruments Guitar family instruments Horn Trumpet family instruments Mythological creatures | ||||
