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51. Musician with a hurdy-gurdy (15th cent.)
52. Angel with hurdy-gurdy
53. Angel bracket in the choir loft of Aachen Cathedral (1430)
54. Sebastian Virdung, Musica getutscht; title page (1511)
55. Sebastian Virdung, "Lyra" (1511)
56. Martin Agricola, "Leyer" (1528)
57. Medieval hurdy-gurdy
58. Johann Amos Comenius, Instrumenta Musica. Klangspiele (1657)
59. Phillippe de Mazerolles (d. 1479), miniature from a page frame
60. Niklaus Manual (c. 1484-1530), Dance of Death
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