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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864
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1on the ancient gateway of the Abbey of St. Denis, which was constructed in the twelfth century, three figures represent viols with five strings and with three, which have bridges. The gateway of Notre Dame of Chartres, which is also of the twelfth century, displays among its sculptures a vielle with three strings, with a bridge. On the contrary, a rubèbe with two strings, in the hands of an angel, in the window of the Abbey of Bon-Port, in Normandy, and belonging to the thirteenth century, has no bridge.
3A viol with five strings, which occurs in a French romance of the fourteenth century (MS. No. 6737 of the Imperial Library, Paris), has a bridge; but a rebec with three strings, shown in the Miroir historial of Vincent of Beauvais (MSS. of the fifteenth century, No. 6731 of the same library), and a little viol, also with three strings, which is found in a manuscript of the Bible historiaux, of the same period (No. 6819 of the same library), have not any.
5A large viol with four strings, which a woman holds between her legs, in the book entitled les Échecs amoureux (MSS. of the fifteenth century, No. 6808 of the Imp. Lib.), has a bridge. The same is the case with a little rebec with three strings, held by a siren, in the same volume. This rebec has the precise form of those which are represented in the work of Martin Agricola*. Lastly, we see a bridge on a viol with four strings in the book of Proverbes et Adages of the sixteenth century (MSS. No. 4316 fonds de la Vallière, in the same
7* Musica instrum. &c. pp. lv, lvi.
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