King David playing music with four musicians and dancers

King David playing the psaltery with four musicians and dancers, 9th century France. Asaph dances with a scarf, Eman plays unknown percussion rattles, Ethan a stringed instrument and Idithum a buccina or salpinx horn. The legend reads Quattuor hic socii comitantur in ordine David. In Gallic short tunics of the late 9th century. Taken from the psalter of Charles the Bald, Psautier de Charles le Chauve, MS Latin 1152, fol. 1v, copied by Liuthard, France, IXe siecle. Chromolithograph by Mathieu after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre's Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858

Asaph Charles Louandre Charles The Bald Claudius Joseph Ciappori Copied Eman Ethan Gallic Gaul Hangard-mauge Ixe Siecle King David Les Arts Somptuaires Mathieu Percussion Psalter Psaltery Rattle The Sumptuary Arts

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