psalterionn.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 3490 Ne cuðe na mon swa muchel of song of harpe & of salteriun.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 165 Psalterión, a psaltrion.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 124 He could no skill to tune a harpe, nor a violl, nor to playe of a psalterion [Gk. ψαλτήριον].

c1625 T. Heywood tr. Ovid De Arte Amandi iii. 78 Learne Musicke then and hope to play vpon, The double handed sweet Psalterion [L. nablia].

1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 275 The only tolerable Instrument they have is the Psalterion.

1759 New Universal Hist. Arts & Sci. II. 369/2 Psalterion, psaltery, is a musical instrument, much in use among the antient Hebrews, who called it nebel.

1855 Sci. Amer. 17 Feb. 179/1 The first instrument with horizontal strings was always called a psalterion or tympanum, and more recently a dulcimer.

1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 364 I sent the tablets, the psalterion, so Rewarded Sicily.

1897 F. Thompson New Poems 31 My fingers thou hast taught to con Thy flame-chorded psalterion.

1949 J. G. Evans Eng. Art, 1307–1461 i. 16 What are we to think of a minoress playing a psalterion accompanied by a Franciscan friar on the mandoline?

1999 Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 40 106 In a detail of a 14^thc. fresco by Francesco Traini at the Campo Santo church in Pisa, the central figure is a woman plucking a psalterion.

1893 Month Feb. 221 With regard to Vespers, the Psalterion lays down the law in this way.

1910 Biblical World 36 177 In the Alexandrine manuscript of the LXX the book is called Psalterion, the name of the musical instrument being applied to the song which it accompanies.