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| Keywords: Queen Mary Psalter Marriage feast at Cana.jpg en British Museum image Royal 2 B VII f 168v Detail of a miniature of the marriage feast at Cana with a kneeling maid holding up a cup of the miraculous wine and six angels playing musical instruments in niches three on either side Instruments include 2 citoles 3 rebecs or vielles a trumpet and a psaltery 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 53722 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 Rebec Trumpets Psaltery Medieval miniatures of musicians String instruments in art Wind instruments in art Wind instruments String instruments Lute family instruments Guitar family instruments Trumpet family instruments Vielle | ||||
