Recueil des masquarades et jeu de prix a la course du Sarazin (Paris 1607, Guillaume Marette)

Dance manual/reference by Paris 1607 (Guillaume Marette, rue sainct Iean de Beauvais). Recueil des masquarades et jeu de prix a la course du Sarazin, faits ce karesme-prenant en la presence de Sa Majeste a Paris. Paris, chez Guillaume Marette (rue sainct Iean de Beauvais), M.D.C.VII = 1607 (the BnF Gallica catalog records the item under 1609 for a later imprint; the title-page date and the filename = 1607). CARNIVAL MASQUARADE LIVRET documenting three full-ballet masquarades performed before Henri IV during the 1607 Mardi-Gras Carnaval-prenant at Paris, together with the COURSE DU SARASIN equestrian tilts in the grande rue Saint-Antoine. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1607-Masquarades_(BNF).txt (54 KB OCR; moderate OCR of early-17c French with long-s and pied-de-mouche ornamental capitals). STRUCTURE: (I) AV LECTEVR preface by the Imprimeur (Guillaume Marette) on the relative simplicity of the present recueil vs. what could have been; (II) MASQUARADE I: DES ECHECS -- chess-allegory-ballet with 8 Pions-incarnats + 4 Rocs + Cavaliers + Rois-armez-de-Marottes + Rois-et-Reines, two Espagnols at the Sale-bouts; (III) MASQUARADE II: DE LA FOIRE DE SAINT-GERMAIN -- the Colosse-sage-femme frame with four sub-ballets (astrologues with almanach; peintres with baguette-palette-pinceaux; operateurs-charlatans with pinoles-d'eau-de-senteur; coupeurs-de-bourses with gourmades-finale); closing Mercure-recit of the sujet; (IV) MASQUARADE III: DE L'AMOUR CONSTANT ET DE L'AMOUR VOLAGE -- 8-vs-8 cavalier grand-ballet combat with arcs-et-fleches vs. petits-javelots, Amour-Constant triumphing over Amour-Volage, 100 different figures; (V) VERSES DONNEZ A L'ENTREE BY THE MASQUERADERS: L'ALMANACH DES ASTROLOGVES with mock-predictions for the year; (VI) COURSE DU SARASIN: equestrian tilts at the Saracen-head in the grande-rue-Saint-Antoine on the Mardy-de-Carefme-prenant (moved from the rainy Dimanche xxv. Febvrier), with the CHEVALIER POLEMANTHE as the maintain (principal-knight), CARTEL-POEMS addressed to the Dames, names-of-the-Princes-et-Seigneurs participating. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: (1) EARLIEST HENRI-IV-ERA MASQUARADE-BALLET LIVRET in the LOD corpus, 3y BEFORE LOC-1610-VENDOME; completes the Henri-IV / Louis-XIII ballet-de-cour chain at its earliest attested Paris-carnival endpoint. (2) CHESS-ALLEGORY-BALLET innovation -- prefigures the geometric-letter-figures of LOC-1610-VENDOME 3y downstream. (3) FOIRE-DE-SAINT-GERMAIN PROTO-GENRE: four-character allegorical-ballet structure prefigures the Commedia-dell'Arte character-ballets of Moliere-Lully Ballet-des-Muses 1666 and Bourgeois-Gentilhomme 1670. (4) AMOUR-CONSTANT-VS-AMOUR-VOLAGE INNOVATION: 8-vs-8 javelots-armed cavalier combat-ballet prefigures the Cavaliers-armes combat-entree of LOC-1617-DURAND (10y downstream). (5) CARNIVAL-PRENANT DATING: first LOD-corpus attestation of a carnival-Mardi-Gras ballet performance at Paris, establishing the liturgical-calendar-anchored court-ballet tradition that dominates 1607-1670 ballet-de-cour scheduling. (6) INTERACTIVE-BALLET INNOVATIONS: the Astrologues' printed-almanach and the Operateurs' printed-receptes distributed to the Dames audience constitute the earliest LOD-attested interactive ballet-de-cour TOKEN-DISTRIBUTION -- a device echoed by Moliere's Amphitryon (1668) audience-address and by the Bourgeois-Gentilhomme Ceremonie-Turque. Has_Step_Detail=None: the livret is prose-description + poetic-cartels + mock-almanach only, without technical step-descriptions (no Beauchamp-Feuillet by 93y). (1607). Imported from local collection.