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

Other representations of the month of February

1 Febrary – Saint Verdiana

Madonna and Child with Six Saints by Tommaso del Mazza 
Painting by Taddeo di Bartolo
Rightmost panel in predella in the Ascension of John the Evangelist Altarpiece
Embroidered Panel at the V&A
Menabuoni G. – Pazzi P. A. (1739), Santa Verdiana
Libro del Compendio della vita dei santi
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Dictionary of Saintly Women

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Evenings with the Saints by W. H. Anderdon.

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art
– Embroidered Panel at the V&A
– Ascension of John the Evangelist Altarpiece, rightmost panel in predella

– Madonna and Child with Six Saints by Tommaso del Mazza 

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Santuario di Santa Verdiana

17C Verdiana Healing a Child & Verdiana Carrying Food to the Poor at HUAM

LA VIERGE ET L’ENFANT AVEC HUIT SAINTS in Avignon
Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – serpent.

Customs & Devotions

Contemporary Celebrations