Katrina asked me last week where I go the image of the goat and the ass playing the harp that I've used on this website. My answer, I'm sorry to say, was that I don't remember. I have quite a big collection of images medieval animals playing the harp - many scooped off the internet, but others that I've photographed when visiting medieval structures in Europe. I just chose this one because I liked it at the moment. It is from some psalter (a book of the psalms) - and I will try to look it up in the next while. But in the meantime, she's sent me this interesting link - who knew??? Enjoy!
https://artsymbol.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/the-ass-and-the-harp/
An addendum - went back and found my goat and donkey - one of the initials in the Hunterian Psalter, also know as the York Psalter. Dating from about 1170, it has another beautiful harp whose image you might have seen of David tuning it. Even the great King David need to tune his harp. The goat is the first letter (E) in psalm 67. Here's a page from the psalter showing how the initials appeared, and the beautiful writing. I got that image here, along with a long story about the psalter - most interesting... The website is from the Glasgow museum, Special Collections, which owns the psalter. 