Ms Hunter 229 f.21v David tuning his harp, from the Hunterian Psalter, c.1170 (pen &...

full-page picture (9½ x 5 3/4) of David tuning his Harp. Circular medallions at the corners contain angels (top) and musicians (below). Between the angels is a view of the Temple and Jerusalem. The Heavenly Hand appears in benediction above a white bar, from which depend 15 bells hammered by two men in green and red, who stand on a blue bar, having mounted by ladders l. and r. On the white bar are these musical notes: ut re mi fa sol la fa mi la sol fa mi re ut. Beneath David's footstool, a man, in red and blue, plays on a four-stringed fiddle, and a woman, in a buff and white dress, plays on a three stringed bass viol. Two children between these play on pan-pipes (?) and a species of bag-pipe. The musicians on the left play on hand bells and on the zither and two quills. On the right a bearded man sings and plays at one end of a composite musical instrument which looks like a compound of musical glasses and a three-stringed hurdy-gurdy, which latter a youth works with a handle.