Historical SourcePublic Domain
Livre de contredance (André Lorin, c.1685)
Publisher: André Lorin (maître à danser du Roy) — holograph manuscript, c.1685, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Département des Manuscrits, Gallica BnF). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1680-Lorin-Contredanse-Roi_(BNF).txt (194-line ABBYY OCR; degraded from handwritten cursive manuscript). Dating uncertain: the Richard Powers collection classifies it 1680; BnF Gallica metadata assigns it broadly to the XVIIe siècle; c.1685 is assumed here as pre-presentation draft to the 1688 royal presentation manuscript (Livre de la contredance du roy). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: one of the two earliest French contredanse manuscripts in any corpus; pre-dates the Feuillet 1700 engraved-notation era by ~15 years. Lorin develops an indigenous French notation system using symbolic diagrams (points, lignes, chiffres marginaux) to record step sequences and figure paths, distinct from but contemporaneous with the Beauchamp-Feuillet manuscript tradition.Year: 1685Family: lorinCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by André Lorin (maître à danser du Roy) — holograph manuscript, c.1685, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Département des Manuscrits, Gallica BnF). Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1680-Lorin-Contredanse-Roi_(BNF).txt (194-line ABBYY OCR; degraded from handwritten cursive manuscript). Dating uncertain: the Richard Powers collection classifies it 1680; BnF Gallica metadata assigns it broadly to the XVIIe siècle; c.1685 is assumed here as pre-presentation draft to the 1688 royal presentation manuscript (Livre de la contredance du roy). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: one of the two earliest French contredanse manuscripts in any corpus; pre-dates the Feuillet 1700 engraved-notation era by ~15 years. Lorin develops an indigenous French notation system using symbolic diagrams (points, lignes, chiffres marginaux) to record step sequences and figure paths, distinct from but contemporaneous with the Beauchamp-Feuillet manuscript tradition. (1685). Imported from local collection.