Thanks for the links, Roger, and to Rob for forwarding them to the cittern list.
There is a 12th-century sculpture depicting a citole or cittern in the Parma Baptistry. There's an interesting site about the citole / gittern here: http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/citole.html Here is what it says about the Parma sculpture: "Chronologically, our next representation of the instrument is this sculpture by Benedetto Antelami, ca.1180, from the Baptistry in Parma, Italy. It shows an instrument with four distinct strings, a bridge, definite raised frets, and small wings at the top of the body." Doc http://www.musicintime.co.uk/DocRossi/doc.htm http://www.magnatune.com/artists/docrossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
