Biblical scene from the Zwiefalten Passionale. Historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Schlesinger" class="extiw" title="w:Kathleen Schlesinger">Kathleen Schlesinger</a> identified the woman on the donkey as St Pelagia.<sup id="cite_ref-britguitar_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britguitar-1">[1]</a></sup> She is holding a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/crwth" class="extiw" title="w:crwth">crwth</a>-like instrument, or a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cythara" class="extiw" title="w:cythara">cythara</a> transitioning into a necked instrument<sup id="cite_ref-britguitar_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britguitar-1">[1]</a></sup>. The man leading the donkey has a guitar shaped instrument.<sup id="cite_ref-britguitar_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britguitar-1">[1]</a></sup> This latter instrument is interesting, because the modern guitar in that shape was developed centuries later. Schlesinger called this image "One of the earliest representations of a guitar in Western Europe."<sup id="cite_ref-britguitar_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britguitar-1">[1]</a></sup> Three possible dates given by holding library: c. 1120-1125, c. 1130-1140, and the 3rd quarter of the 12th century. Passionale, pars hiemalis - Cod.bibl.fol.57 number 520-257v. 
This instrument could possibly be a plucked fiddle by the criteria Ephraim Segerman put down; plucked fiddles predate the citole as this does; they had rounded corners without wings, as this instrument does.<sup id="cite_ref-segerman_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-segerman-2">[2]</a></sup>
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