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! Time ! Title ! Author ! Abbr. ! Language ! Provenance ! cited in

Citations are from:

1. Barbara Sparti, “Breaking down Barriers in the Study of Renaissance and Baroque Dance”
2. Greg|Lindahl?, “Dances from the Inns of Court”, http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance/ioc/intro.html

Locations:

• PBN: Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
• RBV: Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Note that texts are generally known by their current location, not their origin. So the “Siena Mannuscript” is the Ebreo manuscript located in the library of Siena, rather than a source originally from Siena.

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• Arbeau's Orchesographie (France, 1589),
• Il ballarino di M. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (Italy, 1581)
• Nobiltà di dame del Sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (Italy, 1600)
• The Brussels Manuscript (Early Burgundian basse dance - date unknown, but text very similar to Toulouze)[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lod/vol2/trans_brussels.html (translation of this and Toulouze)]
• Toulouze, ":'art et Instruction de Bien Dancer" (Paris, c. 1490)
• Copeland's "Manner of dauncynge of bace dauces" (1521, England) transcription
• Moderne's "S'ensuyvent Plusieurs Basses Dances Tant Comunes Que Incommunes" (1532-3) translation
• Domenico da Piacenza's "De la arte di ballare et Danzare" (PnD, or Paris Bibliotheque Nationale, f. Ital 972) (Italian c. 1425)

These links are for secondary sources, reconstructions and research papers. They include some level of scholarly attention to detail and feasibility

• Master Crispin Sexi's Evidence for 13th-14th Century Dance
• Mistress Rosina's Joy and Jealousy: A Manual of 15th-Century Italian Balli
• Class notes for Conto Dell'Orco , Candida Luna and the Gresley class notes from KWDS VII on Rendance.Gyges.org
• Peter Durham's Dances from the Inns of Court London Booklet
• Daniele da Padola's Reconstruction of early Burgundian Basse Dance

These are links to informal cheat sheets and step reminders, not dance reconstructions. They are meant primarily for people who are familiar with the repertoire and wish to refresh their memory of dances they know already. They include numerous assumptions and are often based on interpretations which are far removed from the original sources and primary research.

• The Barony of Cinnabar's Terpsichore of the Tower 18 (red cover, 2012) booklet
• Master Gregory's Cheat Sheets

• The Function and Status of Dance in the Fifteenth-Century Italian Courts - Barbara Sparti, Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Summer, 1996), pp. 42-61. Discusses the social status of dance in the stated period.
• Breaking down Barriers in the Study of Renaissance and Baroque Dance Barbara Sparti, Dance Chronicle, Vol. 19, No. 3 (1996), pp. 255-276. Discusses the transition between dance periods. Contains the foundation of the timeline started above.