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Cymbalum

Cymbalum is a musical instrument.

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Identity

What the record establishes about Cymbalum.

Cymbalum mundi or satyrical dialogues on various subjects. By Bonaventure des Perriers Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre. With a critical letter containing the history and analysis of the work, together with an Apology for it. Done into English from the original. is dated 1723 and held by Wellcome Collection. Cymbalum mundi. Or, satyrical dialogues upon several subjects, by Bonaventure des Perriers, Valet-de-Chambre to Margaret de Valois, Queen of Navarre. To which is prefix'd a letter containing the history, apology, &c. of that work. By Prosper Marchand. Don is dated [1712] and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection records 2 objects associated with this heading. Cymbalum is classified as a musical instrument.

Authority records

The identifiers under which Cymbalum may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Cymbalum is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q135686764.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

4 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Le refus de « parler chrétien » : dissidence d’un motif à travers La Farce de Maître Pathelin, Pantagruel et le Cymbalum mundi, Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2012. Esoterismo. Giornata di studi intorno al volume 25 degli Annali della Storia d’Italia Einaudi, Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2011. Censura e instancias reformistas en la corte de Francisco I: L'"Inquisiteur" de Margarita de Navarra en la historia de "Cymbalum Mundi", Studia Aurea: Revista de Literatura Española y Teoría Literaria del Renacimiento y Siglo de Oro, 2009. The Importance of Literary Sources in the Pictorial Tradition of the Beatus Manuscripts: The Case of Percussion Musical Instruments, Religions, 2023.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (300667051). Those registers additionally record the form Cymbalum Sionium sive Cantiones Sacrae, 5. 6. 8. 10. & 12. vocum.

Digitised editions and texts

2 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by DataCite (The Global Biodiversity Information Facility) and DataCite (Distributed System of Scientific Collections).

Occurrence Download (2026) — DataCite (The Global Biodiversity Information Facility). Adenocalymma cymbalum (Cham.) Bureau & K.Schum. (2025) — DataCite (Distributed System of Scientific Collections).

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 300 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 9 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1712Cymbalum mundi. Or, satyrical dialogues upon several subjects, by Bonaventure des Perriers, Valet-de-Chambre to Margaret de Valois, Queen of Navarre. To which is prefix'd a letter containing the history, apology, &c. of that work. By Prosper Marchand. Don is dated [1712] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  2. 1712Cymbalum mundi. Or, satyrical dialogues upon several subjects, by Bonaventure des Perriers, Valet-de-Chambre to Margaret de Valois, Queen of Navarre. To which is prefix'd a letter containing the history, apology, &c. of that work. By Prosper Marchand. Don (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1723Cymbalum mundi or satyrical dialogues on various subjects. By Bonaventure des Perriers Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre. With a critical letter containing the history and analysis of the work, together with an Apology for it. Done into English from the original. is dated 1723 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  4. 1723Cymbalum mundi or satyrical dialogues on various subjects. By Bonaventure des Perriers Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre. With a critical letter containing the history and analysis of the work, together with an Apology for it. Done into English from the original. (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 2025Adenocalymma cymbalum (Cham.) Bureau & K.Schum. digitised by DataCite (Distributed System of Scientific Collections).
  6. 2026Occurrence Download digitised by DataCite (The Global Biodiversity Information Facility).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “Cymbalum”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 4 articles naming Cymbalum.

    open access index · Unverified

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  3. 3.

    Gemeinsame Normdatei 300667051, Cymbalum Sionium.

    authority file · Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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  4. 4.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 2 works naming Cymbalum.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  5. 5.

    “Cymbalum”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  6. 6.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q135686764: Cymbalum

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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Elsewhere in Collectables

16,309 published records in this field, each with its sources named.

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