Today's #marginalmusicians are #muses, playing music in honour of Albrecht V of Bavaria.
Detail from #CiprianodelRore's motet Mirabar solito in an #illuminated #choirbook, c1559
Munich, BSB Mus. Ms. B I

#earlymusic #earlymodern #16thCentury #renaissance #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #lute

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 #marginalmusicians are playing the #triangle and the #psaltery.
From Trésor de sapience, Bruges, c1470-80.
Walters Art Museum W307

#manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #renaissance #15thCentury #iconography

Some rather bizarre #marginalmusicians. Creatures playing a #broom, #bellows, and a hunting #horn. Also an #ape playing the #harp.
From the Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies, 1464
@gettymuseum.bsky.social
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #iconography #marginalia #15thCentury

Today's #marginalmusicians (some angelic, some human, some just strange) come from the Llangattock #bookofHours, c1450-60
From Getty Ms. Ludwig IX 7 (83.ML.103)
Music: In Peascod Time from our CD passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/in-pea...

#earlymusic #marginalia #manuscriptmonday #angels #15thC #harp

Today's #marginalmusicians are a #mermaid playing the #harp and a #merman playing the #trumpet.
From #Boccaccio's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, c 1413-1415
#GettyMuseum

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from #Passamezzo
#marginalmusicians playing the lute and singing fr ptbks... FateLachesis measures out thread of their lives...at top viol lute organ... w 7 wind inst
Cipriano de Rore
"Da pacem Domine"1559
www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.p...
Choir of QueensCollegeOxford
/OwenRees
youtu.be/8DRpuTkdpZ8?...