the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe

Europe iconography

earliest images


1130 St Albans Psalter, England, horn and cymbal (?) 12th century possible12th century church of Santiago de la Corona,  Zaragoza, Spain [possible]
1050-12001050-1200 monkey on a chain held by taborer, Dienné, France

12th century

"... At your feasts you have harp and lute, tabor and pipe and wine, but have no eyes for the work of the Lord..."

'The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard, Heloise, Michael Clanchy and Betty Radice (2004) page 175

1220-12401220-1240 Italian (Sicily) image illustrating
a translated early Egyptian manuscript 12v
1220-12701220-1270 France, dance of death
Cantiga1240-70 Castile, Spain
 
1243-1246 Psalter-Hours of Guiluys de Boisleux, Arras, France

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1244-1254 Paris, France
12501250 Bruges, Belgium


1260-70 Oxford, England
1250-1275 France
1255-65 France
12681268 Bible Catalonia

1270 Oxford
1275-1300 NE France
1280-1299 Amiens, France
1275-1325 Toulouse, France

13th century13th century sculpture, Rheims, France

taborer 1280-1299 Amiens, France
(horn and tabor)
1282-1305
Padua,
Italy

1275-1300 Paris, France

1275-1300 NW France
13th century13th century Bayonne, France
1275-1325 Toulouse, France
12801280 France 2v [possible]
12801280 France 6v
12801280 France 9r
12801280 France 36v
 

 

 


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