LArt et instruction de bien dancer (Michel Toulouze, Paris) : a facsimile of the only recorded copy, with a bibliographical note by Victor Scholderer.

Date:
1936
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Also known as

Art et instruction de bien dancer. nr 97012334

Publication/Creation

London : printed for the Royal College of Physicians, 1936.

Physical description

1 score (7 unnumbered pages, 24 unnumbered pages), 1 unnumbered page of plates : facsimiles ; 21 cm

Notes

"Printed by Emery Walker Limited"
Arms of the Royal College of Physicians stamped in gilt on front cover
Leaf 1a of original: Sensuit lart et instruction de bien dancer
Colophon, leaf 12b of original: Cy finissent les regles de dãcer toutes dãces
The woodcut illustrations of the original comprise a group of 3 historiated and 5 architectural border-pieces on leaf 3a and a large cut (Claudin, II, 110) and two small border-pieces on leaf 12b
Includes a collection of basses danses with letter system choreography
Original printed presumably between 1490 and Dec. 30, 1496. Cf. p. 4-6
For relationship to Le manuscrit de Basses danses de la Bibliothèque de Bourgogne (also known as Basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche), see: Leslie, Serge. A bibliography of the dance collection of Doris Niles and Serge Leslie. London, 1966-68. Vol. 2, p. 529, under Toulouze (Michel)

Bibliographic information

Includes "references" (p. [7] following bibliographical note.

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