From Dr H. Janitschek's Geschichte der deutschen Malerei.
Fig. 4. — Representation of a European Guitar. A.D. 1180.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. 12, p. 704
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From Dr H. Janitschek's Geschichte der deutschenMalerei. Fig. 4. —
Representation of a European
Guitar. A.D. 1180.
Kathleen Schlesinger (who wrote the article this appeared in) felt the instrument held by the leading man was a guitar; however research later in the century offers another possibility; it could also be a plucked fiddle. Ephraim Segerman defined the instruments as resembling the citoles (which resembled the guitar but had wing projections at the top.)[1] The plucked fiddles lacked the wing projections and were rounded, so that the instrument could also resemble the guitar.[1]
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