The citole was carved from a single block of wood and had a separate soundboard glued to the top. Everything else was a single piece of wood that included a neck, the sides, the bottom, shoulder points (or arms projecting from the sides), and a knob on the end opposite the neck.
One of the most prominent features of the earlier citoles was a deep neck, so thick that a thumb hole was carved within the neck. This feature gradually receded as the instrument was transformed into the cittern, first becoming larger and then turning into a hook on the back of the neck (a feature of some citterns). The neck was generally shorter than the body, and players' hands did not have to move far to reach all the frets.
Another documented feature was the back, which was neither curved in a bowl like a lute or gittern, nor flat like a modern guitar, but instead slanted "upwards from each side to a central ridge extended in the neck." The back and the soundboard could also be slanted in relation to each other, coming closer together near the bottom of the instrument. Most artistic representations of the citole show a point at the bottom (often in the shape of a Fleur-de-lis or trefoil), forming a fixed point where the strings could be attached. In some examples, the pegs are shown as being mounted at the end, near vertically; in others, they are mounted in the sides of the pegbox, like a violin. Due to its modifications, the Warwick citole is not necessarily representative, and X-ray analysis reveals that it originally had six end-mounted pegs.
The overall shape of the instrument varied, but four forms were commonly illustrated: the holly-leaf shaped instruments, the T-shaped, the vase-shaped instruments and the spade-shaped instruments.
Most depictions of the citole in manuscript drawings and sculpture show it strung with four strings. However, some show instruments strung in three, four, or five individual strings. The British Museum citole originally had pegs for six strings (the holes covered up when the instrument was converted to violin and revealed under X-Ray photography). On that instrument the neck isn't wide enough for six individual strings, as strung on a modern guitar. One possible arrangement for those six strings would be three courses of two strings. This would be similar to depictions in sculpture, including a citole sculpture mounted at the Collegiate church of Santa María la Mayor, which has been interpreted as having three courses (two with two strings, one with a single string).
The strings commonly run from pins at the top of the instrument, down the length of the soundboard and over a bridge. At the bottom of the instrument there are variations. The trefoil is an anchor point, and instruments have different ways to anchor to it. Some clearly show violin style tailpieces tied to it and some citoles have a circle where the tailpiece should be, perhaps a ring to which the strings are fastened or a hole.
There have been differences of opinion between researchers concerning wire strings on the citole. One researcher, Thurston Dart, stated in 1948, that the citole was strung with wire strings. The information was included in Dart's article about the metal-strung cittern, a descendant instrument of the citole. Three decades later another researcher, Ephraim Segerman, considered the issue of wire strings versus metal strings for the citole and came up with a reason why the citole didn't use metal strings: such strings were not widely available during the citole's lifetime (it became obsolete in the second half of the 14th century). Segerman said that throughout its use, the citole was likely strung with gut strings, although iron metal-strings became more commonly available in the late 14th century, thanks to water-power, when the citole was largely obsolete. Use of metal strings wasn't completely impossible as some harps in Europe (especially Ireland) had been strung with silver, gold and brass strings; however, the earlier use of strings of silver and gold and brass seem to have been confined to the Irish harp and psaltery.
In most citoles, the bridge is shown placed at the bottom of the instrument. On the Parma citole, it is positioned in the center of the soundboard. Precise details of the bridge are difficult to make out with most illustrations. The bridge on the Robert de Lisle citole is typical of many of the drawn bridges. Looking at the image is a process of determining: is the shape that of the bridge from above lying flat on the soundboard (with no information about the height and shape of the up and down part of the bridge), or does it show the vertical view with the top and the bottom of the bridge and no information about the width of the bridge on the soundboard?
One image that does give three dimensional information is from the Exeter Cathedral citole, done in sculpture. The sculpted instrument has a thick bridge, built like the corner of a frame, laid on the soundboard with the corner up and the two ends on the soundboard like a triangle. The strings passed over the sharp corner, which acted as a bridge.
Both deep-neck and free-neck citoles are depicted in illustrations with frets. Frets are often shown in pairs (two frets to mark one position on the neck). The number of fret positions varies. One Cantigas de Santa Maria citole has four frets, the others five. The Robert de Lisle Psalter citole (deep neck with thumbhole) is depicted with five frets. The Queen Mary Psalter citoles appear to show five. The abbey of St. Savin citole, the Lincoln Cathedral (stained glass) citole, and the Giorgiano painting citole show eight. As no instruments with frets have survived, the nature of the frets is conjecture. Choices include the use of strings tied around the neck as frets and some sort of permanently mounted fret. Most illustrations aren't detailed enough to know which is used. One exception is the Giorgiano painting, which shows the fret going all the way around the neck, tied string frets. The St. Savin deep-neck citole is also detailed and does not show strings going all the way around the neck. The Ducal Palace Studiolo Cittern/Citole shows cuts in the neck in place of frets.
Another type of soundhole consists of holes drilled in the soundboard and sometimes on the instrument's sides. The holes on the soundboard were cut at the four corners of the instrument. Additionally, holes have been cut into a circle, positioned where a rose would be if one were present. This latter type is found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, the St. Savin citole. Other art that with the soundholes include carved sculpture at the Cathedral of Burgos and the Cathedral of León. Instruments with holes cut into the sides include the Ducal Palace Studiolo cittern and the citole labeled "Plate 4 : Toro Collegiate : West Door, ca 1240" on Christian Rault's web page: The emergence of new approaches to plucked instruments, 13th - 15th centuries.
Another advantage to the instruments being similar (including similar frets and tuning) is that a player could be more versatile, by playing both a bowed instrument and citole.
He felt Spain was a much more likely candidate to have invented the instrument because of the wide distribution of possible citole artwork. One example includes the waisted fiddles from the Rylands Beatus (c. 1175 a.d.), with bent-back pegheads (like a lutes and citoles) as well as a fiddle style peghead (flat-peghead with pegs in front). Another early image Wright mentions is a holly-leaf citole in sculpture at Carboeiro, c. 1238–1266. Wright also mentions that King Alfonso el Sabio, who had the Cantigas de Santa Maria written and illustrated, had two "citolers" in his court at the time.
According to Alice C. Margerum, most of the references to the citole and artwork showing it date to the period from 1175 to 1390. She points out that the term citole in the vernacular of different European languages ("Latin, Occitan, French, Castilian, Anglo-Norman and German") flourished in "the second half of the 13th century". She compiled a map showing two sets of data: places with citole sculpture and places that produced citole manuscripts. Most of the sculpture is shown as Northern Spain and Southeastern England, with a few in Northern France. Manuscripts show the most in Northern France and Southwestern England, with some in greater France, Spain and Italy.
Wright also wrote about the historical evidence for more ancient origins of the citole (and other European instruments, including fiddles). He weighed the pros and cons of two different theories for the development of the citole. As he saw it the two choices at the time (1984) were 1) Winternitz's theory that traced the citole back to the classical kithara, by adding a fingerboard, and 2) a relation to the fiddle or an "oriental necked instrument." He used the Airtam Frieze as an example but cautioned about assuming direct ancestry to this particular instrument. He took issue with the fact that there was a 200-year gap between the 9th–10th centuries Carolingian Manuscripts (the Stuttgard Psalter, the Utrecht Manuscript and the Charles the Bald Bible) and the next evidence in 1198 a.d., which was a sculpture at Parma). He gave one solution to link the older manuscripts to the later evidence, some of the Beatus Apocalypse manuscripts that date from the 9th to 13th centuries. An issue he took with the Beatus Manuscripts' depictions is that they are largely stylized and it is difficult to say conclusively that any of the instruments are citoles. The closest were from the Rylands Beatus, which had obvious fiddle and citole features, but that also shared features with lutes (which were definitely on the Iberian Peninsula when the Apocalypse manuscripts were made). He concluded that it was possible (if one counted some of the instruments in Apocalypse Manuscripts as citoles) that one would have to allow some oval and pear shaped instruments (normally seen as fiddles or plucked fiddles) as citoles.
Dr. Emanuel Winternitz talked about musical instruments evolving over time, in lecture and in the 1961 paper The Survival of the Kithara and the Evolution of the Cittern. From this perspective musical instruments change as luthiers build new instruments; the instruments retain features of older instruments out of concern for customer preferences. Winternitz saw a pattern in which the ancient cithara was given a fingerboard and developed into necked instruments. He interpreted the illustrations in the Charles the Bald Bible, the Utrecht Psalter and the Stuttgard Psalter as illustrating this transformation, and gave many more examples in books and papers that he wrote. Part of his idea was that civilizations are constantly undergoing renaissances in which they rediscover and recreate the past. He pointed to the Carolingian Renaissance as one of these renaissances, that recreated old instruments anew. He also believed that since classical times there was an unbroken "stream of tradition".
To Winternitz, in the Stuttgart Psalter old features were visible in its 9th-century illustrations of the cythara. The instrument had a "superstructure" that reminded him of the "yoke" on the cithara lyre and "enormous ornamental wings" that were remains from the cithara lyre's arms.
Under the theory, a neck was constructed between the two arms of the lyre, and then the arms of the lyre became vestigial, as "wings" (on the cittern "buckles"). Pictures from the 9th-century books, the Charles the Bald Bible and the Utrecht Psalter, illustrate this theory. The development continued from the early cithara lyre, through the forms of instruments (called generically cithara), through the citole, and becoming the cittern. Winternitz credited a Professor Westwood for making the Utrecht Psalter discoveries, quoting Westwood's 1859 paper, Archæological Notes of a Tour in Denmark, Prussia, and Holland: "...frequently shows the ancient kithara side by side with an instrument that has the body of a kithara but a neck in place of the yoke, in other words, a cittern, that is if we want to project this term as far back as the 9th century. The frets are usually carefully indicated on the neck, the graceful curvature of the wings corresponds precisely to that of the arms of the kitharas nearby."
Musicologist Laurence Wright, who is credited with clearing up the differences between the gittern and the citole wasn't fully convinced about Winternitz's continuous transformation. In the entry he wrote for the citole in 1985 in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, he said that the citole could only have been created from the plucked fiddles that were common in Europe at the time (Other instruments related to these include the guitar fiddle, and the early vielle and viol). Three points he made were that a continuous record of instruments with the vestigial wings on the upper corners did not exist for the preceding 200-year period before 1200 AD, that the Spanish instruments thought to be citoles did not have the vestigial wings, and that the name citole did not exist before the 12th century.
Ephraim Segerman also talked about plucked fiddles. A theory of stringed instruments with fingerboards was explained in his 1999 paper, A Short History of the Cittern, where part of the paper explained the existence of short lute-like instruments in Central Asia, and mentioned their entry in Europe around the 8th century. Citing Werner Bachman's 1969 book, The Origins of Bowing, Segerman mentioned that in Central Asia short lutes were invented that were as wide as they were deep, much longer than wide, with 3–5 strings and plucked with heavy plectrum. Some were widened and deepened further, becoming the barbat and entering Europe as the oud. Another line of lutes was widened, but not made any deeper. This line entered Europe, becoming the plucked fiddles (vielle, viola, giga, citole).
Segerman also about the relationship between plucked fiddles and citoles, saying that telling a plucked fiddle from a citole was often "[n]o more than guesswork". Connecting back to Winternitz's continuous development theory, Segerman said that a good way to link an instrument in medieval art to the citole identity was to look for some sign that there was thinking about the cithara-lyre in the design.
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"CITOLE, also spelled Systole, Cythole, Gytolle, &c. (probably a Fr. diminutive form of cithara, and not from Lat. cista, a box)" (Chisholm 1911, p. 397) - Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Citole". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 397.
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Spring, Matthew (2006). The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and Its Music. Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 9780195188387. One possible explanation for this easy acceptance was that both instruments required a basic playing technique that was easily transferred from the citole... 9780195188387
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"In 1910 the eminent musicologist Canon Francis Galpin finally identified the medieval origins of the instrument, describing it as a 'gittern' and thus creating the title by which it was known for much of the 20th century: 'The Warwick Castle Gittern'." (Margerum 2015, p. vi) - Margerum, Alice C. (2015). Robinson, James; Speakman, Naomi; Buehler-McWilliams, Kathryn (eds.). The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives (PDF). London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 978-086159-186-2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/British_Museum_Citole.pdf
"Wright argued that medieval instruments like the example in the British Museum would have been known as citoles and it is his definition of the term ‘citole’ that is accepted by most recent dictionaries of music." (Margerum 2015, p. 16) - Margerum, Alice C. (2015). Robinson, James; Speakman, Naomi; Buehler-McWilliams, Kathryn (eds.). The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives (PDF). London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 978-086159-186-2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/British_Museum_Citole.pdf
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Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 82–83. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Page, Christopher (March 1980). "Fourteenth-Century Instruments and Tunings: A Treatise by Jean Vaillant? (Berkeley, MS 744)". The Galpin Society Journal. 33: 27. doi:10.2307/841826. JSTOR 841826. Albinus put together another tetrachord which he called the cithara; striking the Lydian system on it...which he put together this way...[c-d-g-c']. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 82–83. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 82–83. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 82–83. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 82–83. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
"Pasión por la música antigua, Cítola". cincosiglos.es. Sinco Siglos. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2016. [See images:] Cítola de la Catedral de Burgos [2nd image with that caption], and Cítola de la Catedral de León{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) https://web.archive.org/web/20120618080143/http://www.cincosiglos.es/instrumentos/cuerda-pulsada/66-citola
Rault, Christian. "The emergence of new approaches to plucked instruments, 13th - 15th centuries". christianrault.com. Retrieved 18 November 2016. http://www.christianrault.com/fr/publications/the-emergence-of-new-approaches-to-plucked-instruments-13th-15th-centuries
Wright 1985, p. 379. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, p. 379. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, pp. 377–378. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, pp. 377–378. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, pp. 377–378. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, pp. 377–378. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, pp. 377–378. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, pp. 377–378. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, pp. 377–378. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, pp. 377–378. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Margerum 2015, pp. 23–24, 27 - Margerum, Alice C. (2015). Robinson, James; Speakman, Naomi; Buehler-McWilliams, Kathryn (eds.). The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives (PDF). London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 978-086159-186-2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/British_Museum_Citole.pdf
Margerum 2015, pp. 23–24, 27 - Margerum, Alice C. (2015). Robinson, James; Speakman, Naomi; Buehler-McWilliams, Kathryn (eds.). The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives (PDF). London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 978-086159-186-2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/British_Museum_Citole.pdf
Margerum 2015, pp. 23–24, 27 - Margerum, Alice C. (2015). Robinson, James; Speakman, Naomi; Buehler-McWilliams, Kathryn (eds.). The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives (PDF). London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 978-086159-186-2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/British_Museum_Citole.pdf
Margerum 2015, pp. 23–24, 27 - Margerum, Alice C. (2015). Robinson, James; Speakman, Naomi; Buehler-McWilliams, Kathryn (eds.). The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives (PDF). London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 978-086159-186-2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/British_Museum_Citole.pdf
Margerum 2015, pp. 23–24, 27 - Margerum, Alice C. (2015). Robinson, James; Speakman, Naomi; Buehler-McWilliams, Kathryn (eds.). The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives (PDF). London: The British Museum Press. ISBN 978-086159-186-2. https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/British_Museum_Citole.pdf
There is also evidence of the five-point holly leaf-shaped citron in 14th-century Germany: "Musicien jouant de la citole et danseuse." Musiconis Database. Université Paris-Sorbonne. http://musiconis.huma-num.fr/fr/fiche/153/musicien-jouant-de-la-citole-et-danseuse.html Accessed July 20, 2020. http://musiconis.huma-num.fr/fr/fiche/153/musicien-jouant-de-la-citole-et-danseuse.html
Wright 1985, p. 377. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, p. 377. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, p. 377. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, p. 377. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, p. 377. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, p. 377. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, p. 377. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Wright 1985, p. 377. - Wright, Laurence (1985). "Citole". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. ISBN 978-0943818054.
Winternitz, Emanuel (July–December 1961). "THE SURVIVAL OF THE KITHARA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CITTERN, A Study in Morphology". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 24 (3/4): 210. doi:10.2307/750796. JSTOR 750796. Retrieved 20 November 2016. https://www.academia.edu/24214847
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Winternitz, Emanuel (July–December 1961). "THE SURVIVAL OF THE KITHARA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CITTERN, A Study in Morphology". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 24 (3/4): 210. doi:10.2307/750796. JSTOR 750796. Retrieved 20 November 2016. https://www.academia.edu/24214847
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Butler, Paul. "THE CITOLE PROJECT, MORPHOLOGY IN REPRESENTATION: WHAT DOES A CITOLE LOOK LIKE?". crab.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20220807160212/http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/citole.html
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Butler, Paul. "THE CITOLE PROJECT, MORPHOLOGY IN REPRESENTATION: WHAT DOES A CITOLE LOOK LIKE?". crab.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20220807160212/http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/citole.html
Winternitz, Emanuel (1961). "The Survival of the Kithara and the Evolution of the English Cittern: A Study in Morphology". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 24 (3/4): 224–227. doi:10.2307/750796. JSTOR 750796. These "renaissances", produced by deliberate and conscious selection from antiquity, are not the only form of borrowing from the past. There is also the hidden underground stream of tradition, unbroken since classical antiquity. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Winternitz, Emanuel (1961). "The Survival of the Kithara and the Evolution of the English Cittern: A Study in Morphology". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 24 (3/4): 224–227. doi:10.2307/750796. JSTOR 750796. These "renaissances", produced by deliberate and conscious selection from antiquity, are not the only form of borrowing from the past. There is also the hidden underground stream of tradition, unbroken since classical antiquity. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Butler, Paul. "THE CITOLE PROJECT, MORPHOLOGY IN REPRESENTATION: WHAT DOES A CITOLE LOOK LIKE?". crab.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20220807160212/http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/citole.html
Winternitz, Emanuel (July–December 1961). "THE SURVIVAL OF THE KITHARA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CITTERN, A Study in Morphology". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 24 (3/4): 212. doi:10.2307/750796. JSTOR 750796. Retrieved 24 November 2016. https://www.academia.edu/24214847
Butler, Paul. "THE CITOLE PROJECT, MORPHOLOGY IN REPRESENTATION: WHAT DOES A CITOLE LOOK LIKE?". crab.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20220807160212/http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/citole.html
Butler, Paul. "THE CITOLE PROJECT, MORPHOLOGY IN REPRESENTATION: WHAT DOES A CITOLE LOOK LIKE?". crab.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20220807160212/http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/citole.html
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Winternitz, Emanuel (July–December 1961). "THE SURVIVAL OF THE KITHARA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CITTERN, A Study in Morphology". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 24 (3/4): 212. doi:10.2307/750796. JSTOR 750796. Retrieved 24 November 2016. https://www.academia.edu/24214847
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 78–79. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 78–79. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 78–79. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 78–79. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
Segerman, Ephraim (April 1999). "A Short History of the Cittern". The Galpin Society Journal. 52: 106–107. doi:10.2307/842519. JSTOR 842519. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)