Medieval music used many plucked string instruments like the lute, mandore, gittern and psaltery. "Libra de Buen Amor" by Juan Ruiz, which described the "Moorish gittern" as "corpulent". The Germans continued to use "quinterne", their name for the gittern. The mandore was played widely across Europe, just as the earlier gittern had been. The gittern is first seen in 13th century art. The bowed instruments became the rebec or rabel and the plucked instruments became the gittern.