File:Britannica Bow Earliest Crémaillère Type.png

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English: Drawing of a portion of the sculpted ivory cover of the Lothair Psalter. Original ivory sculpture listed as 12th century A.D.[1] at the British Library; its number there is (Add MS 37768/1).[2]

In 1911, the sculpture was estimated to be from the 11th century A.D. The original caption from the 1911 Britannica:

Drawn from the ivory cover of the Lothair Psalter, by permission of Sir Thomas Brooke.
Fig. 1 — Earliest Bow of the Crémaillère Type (c. 11th century).
Date drawing c. 1911; sculpture 9th century
Source Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. 4, p. 340
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
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Public domain This image comes from the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica or earlier. The copyrights for that book have expired in the United States because the book was first published in the US with the publication occurring before January 1, 1930. As such, this image is in the public domain in the United States.
  1. ↑ Add MS 37768/1. British Library: Digitized Manuscripts. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. "Date 1100-1199...Detached ivory from the cover of Add MS 37768 (the 'Lothar Psalter')"
  2. ↑ A Sense of Detachment. British Library: Medieval Manuscripts Blog (22 May 2014).

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Engraving from 1911 that depicts the 12th century A.D. sculpted ivory book cover from the Lothair Psalter; the image is of a king playing a Germanic bowed lyre.

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