EditorialCristoforo Cortese, Angel with Portative Organ, Cristoforo Cortese (Italian, Venice, active ca. 1390, died before 1445), ca. 14017, Tempera and gold on parchment, 1975.1.2465a: angel with portative organ: 2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (6.1 x 4.4cm), 1975.1.2465a w...
EditorialPortative Organ, late 19th century, Florence, Italy, Italian, Wood, various materials, Total h. 61.3 cm, W. 59.7 cm, L. perpendicular to keyboard 41.6; 3-octave span 51.8, Aerophone-Organ, Probably by Leopoldo Franciolini (Italian, Florence 1844?1920 F...
EditorialWater-powered mills: common breast mill 1, Dr. Barker's mill 3 and the portative or hand mill 4. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, L...
EditorialYoung woman playing a portative organ, 14th century. It was the fashion to wear garlands of flowers during public festivals and events. From a painting by Domenico Bartoli, Siena, later copied in a fresco by Benozzi Gozzoli at Campo Santo cemetery, Pis...
EditorialCristoforo Cortese, Angel with Portative Organ, Cristoforo Cortese (Italian, Venice, active ca. 1390, died before 1445), ca. 14017, Tempera and gold on parchment, 1975.1.2465a: angel with portative organ: 2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (6.1 x 4.4cm), 1975.1.2465a w...
EditorialPortable library of the traveler 1, Front view of an open travel library with 18 miniature books from the 19th century, Fig. 1, 1801, Biblioth?que portative du voyageur. Paris: J.B. Fournier P?re et Fils, 1801-1806.
EditorialYoung woman playing a portative organ, 14th century. It was the fashion to wear garlands of flowers during public festivals and events. From a painting by Domenico Bartoli, Siena, later copied in a fresco by Benozzi Gozzoli at Campo Santo cemetery, Pis...
EditorialThe end of Psalm 98; Psalm 99. Marginal figures playing musical instruments; handbells, a portative organ, bagpipes, a symphony, and the nakers. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. Source: Add. 42130, f.176. Language: Latin.
EditorialPsalter. Text; Psalm 80, with initial 'E', king playing bells and a musician playing a fiddle. Musical notation. Decorated borders with musicians. At top, grotesques playing trumpets with banners bearing the Fitton and Freville arms; lower margin, a mu...
EditorialDavid playing a medieval fiddle. Mirandola Hours. Italy, circa 1490-1499. [Whole folio] Penitential Psalms. David playing a medieval fiddle. At top, the imperial arms. Below, a child with a nimbus plays a portative organ, the bellows of which are suppo...
EditorialPortative Organ, late 19th century, Florence, Italy, Italian, Wood, various materials, Total h. 61.3 cm, W. 59.7 cm, L. perpendicular to keyboard 41.6; 3-octave span 51.8, Aerophone-Organ, Probably by Leopoldo Franciolini (Italian, Florence 1844?1920 F...
EditorialPortative Organ, ca. 1800?1889, Germany or France, German or French, Various, Overall: 75.8 x 49.8 x 22.7cm (29 13/16 x 19 5/8 x 8 15/16in.), Aerophone-Organ.
EditorialWater-powered mills: common breast mill 1, Dr. Barker's mill 3 and the portative or hand mill 4. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, L...
EditorialYoung woman playing a portative organ, 14th century. It was the fashion to wear garlands of flowers during public festivals and events. From a painting by Domenico Bartoli, Siena, later copied in a fresco by Benozzi Gozzoli at Campo Santo cemetery, Pis...