Items matching music

Psalter

Part of a page from Fust & Schoiffer’s second Psalter. A.D. 1459. Johann Fust of Mainz was one of the earliest German printers; Peter Schoiffer, or Peter Schoffer, was his son-in-law. They set up a p [...]

Keywords: music, printing, history of printing, typography, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2008-06-16

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62a.—Initial capital letter “A” from Dance of Death Alphabet

This decorative initial letter “A”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein the Younger and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton banging a drum (or tabor) with a bone, and also p [...]

Keywords: lettera, initials, death, skeletons, music, musical instruments, spirit

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Added: 2009-03-07

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Music

Music by Raphael Collin. ...we would call attention to the ornamental panel by Raphael Collin, which we have engraved (page 424), and which illustrates with much classic feeling and grace the idea of [...]

Keywords: music, romance, musical instruments, trees, people, bare feet

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Added: 2007-08-19

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Cleopatra

A Pre-Rapaelite drawing showing Cleopatra with some round-breasted topless women, presumably slaves or attendants, standing behind her with musical instruments. Incense burns in the foreground, and a [...]

Keywords: people, women, slaves, music, musical instruments

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Added: 2008-10-04

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Le marquis de la Galoche

A girl (I think) with a strange hat, a drum, a guitar, a triangle: a one-man marching band.

Keywords: people, music, musical instruments

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Added: 2007-02-07

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Ornament

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a lyre or harp together with vine.

Keywords: ornaments, music

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Added: 2006-01-11

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Hare and Tabor

Every image collection needs a picture of a hare or rabbit beating a drum, so here it is! “Ben Jonson’s mentionm of the hare that beat the tabor at Bartholomew Fair in his time, is noticed by the inde [...]

Keywords: music, animals

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Added: 2006-01-09

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St. Cecilia

A crowned woman with long hair, robes and sandals wears a pendant and sits clutching her chest. A carved music seat in the shape of an eagle holds a score (sheet music). A winged angel plays a portab [...]

Keywords: angels, people, music, wings, bare feet, cherubs, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2006-01-09

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Cats

A group of cats gathers round an open music book to sing christmas carols. A trombone, violin, banjo and other instruments are visible, along with playing cards. Some mice play nearby. From p. 1100: [...]

Keywords: animals, cats, music, christmas, mice, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2006-01-09

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Out of the World

“[...] The scene is one which we understand the artist witnessed years ago at the Franciscan monastery at Tivoli. In a whiewashed cell of the monastery a young monk sits playing the harpsichord—one of [...]

Keywords: monks, religion, musical instruments, pianos, music, books

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Added: 2007-03-31

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Part of the cover

an older manuscript was reused for the binding.

Keywords: old books, colour, typography, music

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Added: 2006-01-20

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Front Cover

The book has been bound in an older (printed) music manuscript.

The book did not fit on my older scanner, but now I am able to show the entire cover.

Keywords: page images, book covers, music, colour, typography, lettering, book covers

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Added: 2006-03-15

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