| Description |
[72] p., the last 2 blank. (32-37 lines) 29 cm. (f̊ .) |
| Note |
Ms. written in roman script on watermarked paper identified with Florence and other cities of Northern Italy, 1465-75. - Cf. Briquet, I, 3387. |
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Title from published editions of other versions of the ms. |
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Page [2]: Questa è la chopia di messer giorgio e del giudeo di ballare bassa danze e balletti e questa e la tavola della chonposizione del ballo e di bassa danze e balletti chonposti per messer domenicho da ferara e da messer giovanambruogio che fu ebreo. |
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Caption title, p. [4]: Ghuglielmi ebrei pisauriensis de praticha seu arte tripudi vulghare opuschulam feliciter incipit senper chongratia sia di dio senper. |
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Ms. notation in another hand on p. [1] begins: Al serenisimo gran ducha di toscana patron mio oseruandisimo... |
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Signatures: [a] ²⁺², [b-c]¹⁶; blank leaf (different paper and watermark) bound before [a] 1. |
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Binding of vellum. |
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Treatise on the art of dancing (p. [4-15]) is followed by choreographic descriptions of 55 dances, most ascribed to individual composers: Guglielmo Ebreo (in some dances using his later name, Giovan Ambrogio), Domenico da Ferrara, Lorenzo de' Medici, Marjotto da Perugia, and Giuseppe Ebreo. |
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For analysis of contents and comparison with other mss. of this work, see correspondence of Walter Toscanini in the library's Dance Collection. |
| Subject |
Dance -- Early works to 1800.
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Basse danse (Dance)
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| Local Subject |
Dancing masters.
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Dance -- History -- 1450-1581.
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Manuscripts (Books)
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Dance -- Italy -- 15th century.
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| Added Author |
Domenico, da Piacenza, d. ca. 1470.
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Giorgio Ebreo, dancing master, 15th cent.
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Medici, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492.
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Mariotto da Perugia, 15th cent.
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Giuseppe Ebreo, dancing master, 15th cent.
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Cia Fornaroli Collection.
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| Added Title |
De praticha seu arte tripudi vulghare.
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Trattato dell'arte del ballo.
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| Call No. |
(S) *MGZMB-Res. 72-254
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| Research Call Number |
(S) *MGZMB-Res. 72-254
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*ZBD-26
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