Tobias stimmer woodcut engraving of a woman with a quintern, circa 1570-1577. The instrument is identified as a quintern in the poem. The print is part of a series of 10 prints from about 1575 that included the "lute, viol, guitar, positive organ, transverse flute, psaltery, cornett, 'clarion', base shawm, and 'pot lid and spoon. '"[1] the quintern was the german word for gittern, an instrument which evolved into both the guitar and the mandolin. Date: between 1570 and 1577.
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