Recueil dominicain du couvent Sainte-Catherine-de-Sienne de Douai, Folio 1r

Ce livre appartient au Convent des Relligieuses de S. Catherine de Siennes en Douay.
This book belongs to the Convent of the Religious of Saint Catherine of Siena in Douai.

Douai. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 1170, Folio 1

Fondations & aucunes remarques du Convent des F. F. Prescheurs de Douay & de celuy S. Catherine de Siennes. Recoeuilles par le R.P. Philippes Petit Prieur du I.er Convent, & Confesseur du susdict Second Convent l’An 1637.
Foundations & some remarks from the Convent of Brother Preachers of Douai & from that of S. Catherine of Siena. Collected by Father Philippe Petit Prior of the First Convent, & Confessor of the aforementioned Second Convent in the year 1637.

Catalogue entry with full list of illuminations
Digital Facsimile

Sources for the History of Ballet – 16th-17th Century France – The Reign of King Henri IV (1589-1610) – Le ballet de douze dames

Le ballet de douze dames
Ballet de cour
Date: 1600-1601

Verses: Ballets et mascarades de cour de Henri III à Louis XIV (1581-1652) by Paul Lacroix.

Secondary Sources

Recherches sur les theatres de France, depuis l’année onze cens soixante-un, jusques à present, Volume III par M. de Beauchamps (1735).

Le ballet de cour en France avant Benserade et Lully, suivi du Ballet de la délivrance de Renaud. Seize planches hors texts par H. Prunières (1913).

February

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Inspice, et fac secundum exemplar.
Look and make it according to the pattern.
Exodus 25.40
Numera stellas, si potes.
Number the stars, if thou canst.
Genesis 15.5
Stella a stella differt.
Star differeth from star.
1 Corinthians 15.41
Fulgebunt quasi splendor firmamenti – et quasi stellae in perpetuas aeternitates.
They shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and as stars for all eternity.
Daniel 12.3

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