History of Ballet, 16th & 17th Century France – Bibliography

Recueil des plus excellens ballets de ce temps (1612)

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

Ballets, opéra et autres ouvrages lyriques par ordre chronologique depuis leur origine, avec une table alphabétique des ouvrages et des auteurs par le duc de La Vallière (1760).

Les Origines de l’opéra et le ballet de la Reine (1581), étude sur les danses, la musique, les orchestres et la mise en scène au XVIe siècle, avec un aperçu des progrès du drame lyrique depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu’à Lully par Ludovic Celler (1868).

Ballets et mascarades de cour de Henri III à Louis XIV (1581-1652) by Paul Lacroix (1868-1870).

Tome 1

Tome 2

Tome 3

Tome 4

Tome 5

Tome 6

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).

L’art du ballet de cour en France, 1581-1643 by Margaret M. McGowan (1963).

Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti of 1748, Eleventh Engraving

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C.31 [V.33] Cum Iacob intrasset tentorium Rachelis,illa abscondit idola subter stramenta. V.45 Jacob lapidem erexit – in titulum [V.47] testimonii.

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C.29 [V.20] Servivit Jacob pro Rachel septem annis. C.30 [V.39] factum est ut [V.38] in aspectu – virgarum – conciperent – [V.39] oves – et pararent diverso colore. C.31 V.17 Jacob impositis liberis ac conjugibus suis super camelos, abiit – [V.18] ad Isaac patrem in Chanaan. C.33 Jacob vidit venientem Esau – [V.3] et progrediens adoravit pronus septies. – [V.4] itaque Esau amplexatus est eum, et osculans flevit. C.32 [V.24] vir luctabatur cum eo usque mane.

C.29 V.20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel.
C.30 V.39 it came to pass that V.38 in the sight – of the rods – might conceive – V.39 sheep – and brought forth of divers colours.
C.31 V.17 Jacob having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way – V.18 to Isaac father to Chanaan.
C.31 V.33 When Jacob was entered into Rachel’s tent, – V.34 She hid the idols under the furniture. V.45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title: V.47 of testimony.
C.32 V.24 a man wrestled with him till morning.
C.33 V.1 Jacob saw Esau coming – V.3 And he went forward and bowed down with his face seven times. – V.4 Then Esau embraced him, and kissing him, wept.



Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti of 1748, Tenth Engraving

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C.28 Isaac – praecepit Iacob: – Noli accipere conjugem de genere Chanaan: – et Deus det tibi benedictiones Abrahae. – viditque – Iacob – in somnis scalam: – angelos – Dei ascendentes et descendentes et Dominum innixum scalae. – Vovit etiam votum: – Si Deus me custodierit, – lapis iste, – vocabitur Domus Dei : cunctorumque quae decimas offeram.

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C.25 Esau – gnarus venandi, et – agricola : iuravit, et vendidit primogenita, – accepto pane et lentis edulio. 27 Iacob – duos haedos – attulit – matri. Paravit illa cibos, sicut velle noverat patrem -, et vestibus Esau – induit : pelliculasque haedorum circumdedit manibus. – V.22 palpato eo, dixit Isaac : Vox quidem, vox Jacob, sed manus, manus sunt Esauut sensit fragrantiam, benedicens illi, ait : – det tibi Deus de rore caeli.

C.25 V.27 Esau – a skillful hunter, and a husbandman,
C.25  V.33 he sword and sold his first birthright, – V.34 bread and the pottage of lentils.
C.27 V.9 Jacob – two kids V.14 gave to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew father liked.
C.27 V.15 And she put on him garments of Esau, V.16 And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands V.22 when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands are the hands of Esau. V.27 as he smelled the fragrant smell, blessing him, he said V.28 God give thee the dew of heaven. C.28 V.1. Isaac – charged Jacob: – Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan: – V.3 And God V.4 give the blessings of Abraham to thee. –
C. 28 V.12 And Jacob saw in his sleep a ladder – angels of God ascending and descending V.13 And the Lord leaning upon the ladder. – V.20 And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, – V.22 this stone, – shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes.