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| Time | Title | Author | Abbr. | Language | Provenance | cited in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c. 1455 | De arte saltani | Domenico da Piacenza | Pd | Italian | PBN f.ital.972 | 1 |
| 1455/1465 | Libro dell'arte del danzare | Antonio Cornazano | *V | Italian | PBV Capponiano 203 | 1 |
| 1463 | De practica seu arte tripudii | Guglielmo Ebreo | *Pg | Italian | PBN f.ital.973 | 1 |
| c.1471-74 | De practica seu arte tripudii | Giovanni Ambrosio (alias Guglielmo Ebreo) | Pa | Italian | PBN f.ital.476 | 1 |
| c.1473 | Il libro di Sidrach | Ven | Italian | Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (It. II. 34 (=4906) 1 | ||
| 1474 | Ebreo | S | Italian | Siena, Biblioteca Comunale (L.V.29) | 1 | |
| 1477 | Ebreo | FN | Italian | Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Magliabecchiano XIX, 88) | 1 | |
| 1477 | Ebreo | M | Italian | Modena, Biblioteca Estense (ital. 82. a. J. 94) | 1 | |
| 1480 | Ebreo | NY | Italian | New York Public Library, Dance Collection (*MGZMBZ-Res. 72-254) | 1 | |
| 1480s | (“fiorito” dances) | Vit | Italian | Viterbo, Archivio di Stato, Notarile di Montefiascone, Protocollo 11 | 1 | |
| 1510 | Ebreo | FL | Italian | Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Antinori 13) | 1 | |
| 1510 | (a bassadanza and four “new” balli) | FL | Italian | apparently an addition to FL, above | 1 | |
| 1517 | untitled | N | German | Niirnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum (HS 8842/GS 1589) | 1 | |
| c. 1520-30 | “Il Papa” | NY | Italian | Apparently bound with NY, above | 1 | |
| c.1540-60 | MS “Tuscan balli” | Italian? | 1 | |||
| 1549 | La Pazzia del ballo | S. Zuccolo | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1555 | Dialogo del Ballo | R. Corso | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1559 | (a letter with a description of “la caccia” | Italian? | 1 | |||
| 1560 | Ballo della Gagliarda | L. Compasso | Italian | 1 | ||
| c. 1570 | title? | Eliner Gunter and/or Edward Gunter | RP | English | Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. Poet. 108, ff. 10r-11r | 2 |
| c. 1575-1625 | title? | found in papers of J. Stowe | HA | English | London, British Library, Harley 367, ff. 178-179 | 2 |
| 1581 | Il Ballarino | F. Caroso | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1587 | (gagliard variations) | P. Lutij | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1589 | (re-edition of gagliard variations) | P. Lutij | Italian | 1 | ||
| c. 1594 | The olde Measures | John Willoughby | SRO | English | Somerset Records Office, DD/WO 55/7, item 36 | 2 |
| 1600 | Nobilità di Dame | F. Caroso | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1600 | Libro di mutanze of gagliarda, passo e mezzo, canario, etc. | L. Lupi | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1602 | Le Gratie d'amore | C. Negri | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1604 | re-edition of Le Gratie d'amore under new title Nuove inventioni di balli | C. Negri | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1605 | re-edition of Nobilità di Dame | F. Caroso | Italian | 1 | ||
| c. 1607 | Practise for Dauncinge | John Ramsey | DO | English | Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 280, ff. 66av-66bv | 2 |
| 1607 | new edition of Libro di mutanze (1600), this time with step descriptions | L. Lupi | Italian | 1 | ||
| c.1615-20 | Modo di ballare(MS) | L. Jacobilli | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1620 | Discorso sobra il ballo | F. degli Alessandri | Italian | 1 | ||
| c. 1620 | Del Origine et Nobilità del Ballo (MS) | G. Mancini | Italian | 1 | ||
| c.1628-37 | Il Corago (a treatise on the theatre) | anonymous | Italian | 1 | ||
| 1630 | re-edition of Nobilità di Dame with new title Raccolta di varij balli | F. Caroso | Italian | 1 | ||
| c. 1630 | copye of the oulde measures | Elias Ashmole | RD | English | Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. D. 864, ff. 199r-199v | 2 |
| 1633-5 | Trattato della musica scenica | G. B. Doni | Italian | 1 | ||
| ca. 1640-1675 | The Measures as they are Danced in the Inner Temple Hall | Butler Buggins | IT | English | London, Inner Temple Records, `Revels, Foundlings, and Unclassified, Miscellanea, Undated, &c.' vol. XXVII, folios 3r-6v | 2 |
| after 1640 | The Old Measures of the Inner Temple London as they were first begun and taught by Robert Holeman a Dancing-Master before 1640 and continu'd ever since in the Inner Temple Hall | Butler Buggins? | RCM I, RCM II | English | London, Royal College of Music, Ms. 1119, ff. 1r, 1v, and 2v I and 2r II | 2 |
| 1728 | Il Ballo Nobile | G. B. Dufort | not sure | 1 | ||
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