farfel_n06_146

2/94 Getty MSS
- liberal arts - 2 groups - the 3+4 fold paths to knowledge
- the soothing medicinal effects fo the harp music take the
form of a dove flying towards the king's ear (Saul + David)
- 3 music making siirens - their sweet song represented
the lures of the Devil, the world + the flesh.
- marginalia (things in the margins) 1st appeared in English
+ northern French MSS in the mid - 13th C. + remained
fashionable throughout the 14th - 1 parody of figures of
authority (royalty, doctors etc.) 2 merry marking.
- images of David as a musician - Ps 1 harp (strings) 80 - cymbals (percussion), 97 organ (wind

- Beatus vir - " happy is the man."
- Virgin Mary - role as Queen of heaven + Earth, and
Queen of the Angels.
- the bagpipe was an instrument / ) assoc. with the
uncouth behavior of the lower classes.
- Romance of the Rose - narrated by a young man
dreaming about a quest for sexual union with his love
the Rose.
- bestiary - a collection of stories in which characteristics
of red + mythical animals serve as allegories of
Christian virtues + vices.
- gold - symbol of heaven - the realm of God.
- ass - assoc. with unbridled lust in the Middle Ages.
- 24 elders - Apocalypse 4: 4-8.
- gold ground painting

Lapis lazuli -
melchitz - green
copper - green
azurite - blue
lead - white

1) size - animal glue
2) gisso - ground gypsum
3) bole animal glue + red clay
4) gold brownish ink + polished afterwards smooth object such as agate
- assured, adherence of the gold
5) gold decorated by tooling + punching pumice - volcanic glass
6) paing - egg empera