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Dance treatises and choreographic collections

Arbeau, Thoinot. Orchesographie

Longres: Jehan des Preyz, 1589.
Images scanned by Greg Lindahl.
facsimile, and bibliographic information from the Library of Congress
Transcription by Nicolas Graner.

Caroso, Fabritio. Il Ballarino.

Venice: Apresso Francesco Ziletti, 1581.
Transcriptions and images scanned by Greg Lindahl.
facsimile, and bibliographic notes from the Library of Congress

Caroso, Fabritio. Nobiltà di dame.

Venetia, Presso il Muschio, 1600. Ad instantia dell'auttore.
facsimile, and bibliographic notes from the Library of Congress

Cochläus, Johannes. Hie Jnnen sindt geschriben die wellschen tenntz

Nürnberg, Germ. Nat. Mus. (MS 8842). [ca. 1517].
Facsimilie.

Lutii , Prospero. Opera Bellissima Nella Quale Si Contegono Multe Partite, Et Passeggidi Gagliarda ...

Perugia: 1589.
Transcription by Joseph Casazza.

Negri, Cesare. Nuove inventioni di balli

Milano, G. Bordone: 1604.
facsimile, and bibliographic information from the Library of Congress
Transcription by Greg Lindahl.

Ms. 9085, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, Brussels.

Transcription of Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche
by Lieven Baert and Veerle Fack, July 1995.
Information on the text, facsimile, and bibliographical information from the Library of Congress

The "Il Papa" Manuscript, NYPL (S) *MGZMB-Res. 72-255.

Transcription of Il Papa by Joseph Casazza and Elizabeth Cain

The Salisbury MS.

Fly-leaf in Joh. de Janua, Catholicon (Venice, Io. Hamman, 1497).
Copy in the library of Salisbury cathedral.
Transcription.

MS: fonds notarial 3,3 "The Cervera MS".

[ca. 1496]
Facsimilie.

Documents discussing dance

Boiseul, Jean, Traité contre les danses

La Rochelle, Les heritiers de Hierosme Havltin, 1606.
Transcription, facsimile, and bibliographic notes from the Library of Congress

Elyot, Sir Thomas, The Boke Named the Governor

Edited by S. E. Lehmberg, London: 1531
Transcription by Andrea Nagy, Oxford English Dictionary, North American Reading Program.

Bibl. Estense, Cod. ital. n. 521.

The "festa del Paradiso" of January 13, 1490.
Transcription by Edmondo Solmi.

Magliabechiana Cod. VII, 1121.

Florence, 1459.
Transcription by Joseph Casazza.

Magliabechiana. Cod. XXV, 24

Florence, 1459.
Transcription by Giuseppe Tartini.

See Also

Lingustic Sources

A Bibliography of Recently Discovered Sources

The Rendance Annotated Bibliography

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