Scan 31
The Violin & Its Story: Or the History & Construction of the Violin, 1905
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1bent inwards, above the bridge. The edge is ornamented with inlaid ivory or mother-of-pearl.
3Three figures over the portal of the Abbey of St. Denis, built in the twelfth century, hold "violins" with three or five strings; while the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Chartres, of the same century, has amongst its sculptures a fiddle with three strings, but with nothing resembling a bridge.
5In Fig. 8 we have a representation of a violin which forms the vignette of a MS. to be seen at Paris, and which appears to belong to the thirteenth century. This
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9instrument approaches more nearly to the present form of the violin, the edges having two gentle bends inwards, suggesting the middle bouts of our violin, and the "F holes" are represented by two halfmoon-shaped openings, turning towards each other. The bow, however, differs but little from that in Notker's Psalm Book.
11In the museum at Prague is preserved a parchment manuscript, written between 1202 and 1212, and known
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