Research Catalog

Title

[Basse danse.

Publication

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493]

Details

Description

Woodcut within line border; 12 x 15.5 cm. (on sheet 41.4 x 29.5 cm.).

Subjects

• Dance > Germany > 15th century
• Social dancing > 15th century
• Prints (Graphic arts) > Social dancing > 15th century
• Musicians
• Basse danse (Dance)

Note

• Page from Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum Mundi, which was illustrated mainly by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurf. Vignette, surrounded on three sides by Latin text, depicting four couples performing a basse danse to a flute and drum accompaniment; outdoor setting.
• Reproduced in Mabel Dolmetsch, Dances of England and France from 1450 to 1600, 1949, opp. p. 64.

Call Number

*MGZFD Bas 1

OCLC

NYPY847006081-F

Title

[Basse danse.

Imprint

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493]

Local Note

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Local Subject

Musicians.

Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 15th century.

Social dancing -- 15th century.

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Bas 1