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„Our initial letter i s taken from We;- collection of,, Latin -legends'.» o f "Saints in
the Arundel Library in ijp^e' British Museum and ^ in te re s tin g as
furnishing us with*.early forms 'of musical instruments. The instrumàlwa; the
xnbuth of-Sie" larger figuré /(which- hôldhthe two harps) appears ^ ^ Kflfkind
of-flute. great variety -of musical instruments represented in tl^S^uminalions^
of àndèntî manuscripts, and paeptionèd -in the old Hqmances^and.ower
writings, is #very remarkable. Iphfortunatelyl we have very 'Irt^L&^'.iassist us
, in- identifying the forms delineated in the. manuscripts' with .t^à/namés., given. in
the boOks ; and the difficulty in doing so' is increased by the, '|£feimstlu® that
. the fantastic formsyof some of these instruments appear, td be-ftp'e m e r e f e n -
tions, of the illuminator^ while others are-* perhaps ^^ggetLerrimaginary -repre--
hehtations of "the" musical instruments -mentioned -in, the) Bitfie,' As M:e-'go
back-to the ipfancjujf nations, we naturally.i^cpeatitO. fixîd tha£ instrumente of
muêié few and simple,^rather_than complicated.
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