#facundus

[lutes-of-the-world]

Facundus 

Illustration from a version of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, or the Beatus, c. 1047., northern Spain.

Note David's lyre and the angels' lutes.

The lyre resembles the Ethiopian begenna I posted recently, which is still used for Christian devotional music.

The lutes resemble the old Mesopotamian pandura and the still-surviving Yemeni qanbūs I've been posting about.

[magictransistor]

Beatus de Facundus. Illuminated Revelations. 1047.