A European lute is depicted in the Libro de los juegos

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1. Story
2. A player of a lute-type instrument appears alongside a chess game in the Libro de los juegos, the compendium of games commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile and completed around 1283 — cited in museum accounts as among the first depictions in which the European lute can be distinguished from the Arab ʿūd. The iconographic gap between Ziryāb's arrival and this image is more than four centuries, which is a real limitation on how tightly the oud-to-lute transmission can be dated: instruments of oud type are visible in Iberian art far earlier, but telling the two apart in a picture is not possible until the Western instrument had diverged enough to look different.
3. Knowledge
4. Oud
5. European lute
6. Andalusia and al-Andalus
7. A European lute is depicted in the Libro de los juegos
8. Connections
9. European lute
10. Oud
11. Andalusia and al-Andalus
12. Banjo
13. Oud
14. Guitar
15. A European lute is depicted in the Libro de los juegos
16. Ngoni
17. European lute
18. The Andalusi nūba
19. Ziryāb arrives at the Umayyad court of Córdoba
20. A European lute is depicted in the Libro de los juegos
21. Granada falls and the Andalusi repertoire crosses to the Maghreb
22. The Andalusi nūba
23. Córdoba
24. Ziryāb (Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Nāfiʿ)
25. Ziryāb arrives at the Umayyad court of Córdoba
26. A European lute is depicted in the Libro de los juegos
27. Granada falls and the Andalusi repertoire crosses to the Maghreb
28. Evidence
29. The medieval European lute descends from the gut-strung Arabian oud, takes its name from the Arabic al-ʿūd, cannot be distinguished from the ʿūd in Western iconography until about the thirteenth century, and appears in the Libro de los juegos commissioned by Alfonso X and completed c. 1283; European players added frets. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary with the substance attributed to this Met essay; the essay page itself was not opened, and no plate, accession number or footnote in it was read.