Sons et instruments de musique au moyen age

The Importance of Literary Sources in the Pictorial Tradition of the Beatus Manuscripts: The Case of Percussion Musical Instruments

“…As an example, we can go through the great manuals published in different periods in which, in the best of cases, we can observe an illustration or a very brief commentary of a Beatus used as an example to explain questions unrelated to the organological content of the Beatus manuscripts themselves, even in works or chapters dedicated more exclusively to dealing with questions of musical iconography in medieval miniatures. See (Buhle 1903;Crane 1972;Ferrara 1979;Munrow 1976;Montagu 1980;Álvarez 1982b;Homo-Lechner 1996;Marschein 2001;Muller 2013).…”