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Coplande, Robert

The manner to dance bace dances / - Flansham, Sussex : The Pear Tree Press 1937. - 14 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

"Note, by a dancer" signed: John Guthrie. Reprint of the short treatise published at the end of Alexander Barclay's "The introductory to wryte and to pronounce Frenche," printed in London by Robert Coplande, 1521. The original translation has caption title: Here foloweth the maner of dauncynge of bace daƫces after the vse of Fraunce & other places translated out of Frenche in Englysshe by Robert Coplande. cf. Brandt, S. The ship of fools, tr. by Alexander Barclay, 1874, v. 1, p. civ. "The original from which it was translated is unknown, but it has many points of similarity to the famous manuscript "e livre de basses danses' which is in the Royal Library in Brussels."--p. 5.

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