the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe
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1130 St Albans horn and cymbal (?)

   
12001200 Canterbury and 1340 Catalonia
[fol 154v]
13th centurymid 13th century Bible Oxford [311v]
Londoon1260 London
1260-70 Oxford

1270 Oxford

12701270 Oxford
12751275 York [65r]
12751275 York [11r]
between 1275 and 1320 Winchester1285 Winchester

horse1289 horse player [page 152]

  
late 13th centurylate 13th century York
 1275-13201275-1320 Marlborough [Fol. 075r]
13001300 horse [?] possibly East Anglia 1300-13101300-1310 Ramsey, Huntingdonshire [f.91r] 1310-20 East Anglia
1310-201310-20 Westminster/ East Anglia? [197r] 1310-13201310-1320 Westminster, London [194r]

14th century manuscript possibly made
in Lincolnshire, 'Horae:
“Border. Deer and hound above:
two monsters below play pipe and tabor,
and trumpet" [page 22]

'A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WESTERN
MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, Cambridge'

[Ed. I have not seen this manuscript yet]

13171317 Peterborough
13171317 Peterborough  
13101310 Norfolk
14th century14th century Norfolk
14th century1310-1324 Norwich [125r]
14th century14th century Norfolk
1322-13251322-1325 Norwich [f.334v]
dog1324 dog player
14th century14th century Norfolk
13251325-1330 Oxford [79r]
13251325-1330 Oxford [118v]
c.1325
 c.1325 1325-30 Oxford/London?
c.1325 Exeter Psalter
1316-1331 York
 1320-13301320-1330 Bible, London

 

 13201320-1330 southern England [43v]
13251325 East Anglia Luttrell Psalter
13261326 London [43r]
14th century14th century London
1330 1330 East Anglia,  
1340 East Anglia, [043r]
1330-401330-1340 East Anglia
1335-13501335-1350 Cambridge
© The Master and Fellows
of St John's College Cambridge
 
1340 French decretals illustrated in London (Decretals of Gregory IX )
1340f.2v
1340f.29r
 1300-1340f.42r  
1340f.57v
1340f.58
1340f.66v
  
1340 f.71 f.71r
1340f.94r
 1275-1325
 
13501350 Battle  [plate 82]

2nd half 14th century1356-1373 London [f82v]

1356-13731356-1373 London [f19v]
1360-801360-80 Pleshey Castle,
south England
 
in a band
1326
 13271326 London
 
devil taborers
1301-13501301-1350 Salisbury

13401340 demon London [f.201v]
1350-14001350 London [139v]
after 1413after 1413 East England
 
playing for dancing
13th century13th century celebrating the death of the witnesses to the apocalypse, England
1330-13401330-1340 France [f. 022v - 023]
19thc copy dancing14th century dance, 1871 copy ‘A History of domestic manners
and sentiments in England during the Middle Ages’ by Thomas Wright
 

Also see England double pipes

Europe decorative arts, Ape players


   
     
     

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