Cuadernillo Curioso de veinte Contradanzas nuevas, escritas de todas cuantas maneras se han inventado hasta ahora — compuestas por Pablo Minguet é Yról (Madrid, Imprenta del Autor, 1757; BNE Madrid)

Dance manual/reference by Pablo Minguet é Yról (Spanish dancing-master and plate-engraver, 'Abridor de Laminas, y Sellos, etc.' / resident at the Corte, 'vive frente la Carcel de Corte, encima la Botica' Madrid) / Madrid 1757. Biblioteca Nacional de España catalog: pamphlet-format (pliego-and-a-half printing format) bound with music for a bass + Spanish contradanza descriptions. Royal privilege-date 2 Jul 1737 ('Privilegio del Rey nuestro señor á Pablo Minguete Yról, residente en esta Corte, por tiempo de diez años'); errata-date 5 Jul 1737 (Lic. D. Manuel Garcia Alefson, Corrector por su Mag.); tassa-date 10 Jul 1737 — establishing the 1737 original privilege-grant followed by the 1757 reimpression of the Quadernillo. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1757-Irol-Quadernillo_(BNE).txt (209 lines; well-preserved 18c Spanish type with ligature-noise on script-plates). STRUCTURE: (Front-matter) Minguet's author-advertisement announcing the book as the 'Cuadernillo Curioso' containing 20 Contradanzas (5 vowels × 4 formation-formats) with music (alegre 'with its bass') and 40 diferencias sufficient to permit any aficionado to name the contradanzas himself; (Explicacion-de-Nombres) 15-page glossary of the figure-vocabulary necessary for the Contradanzas Largas and Redondas (La C, O-cerrada, O-abierta, Medio-ocho, Ocho-cerrado-de-la-Dama, Ocho-abierto, Ocho-entre-tres-ordinario, Ocho-entre-tres-extraordinario, Ocho-entre-tres-atravesado, Ocho-entre-tres-doble, Ocho-doble, Cadena-sencilla, Cadena-doble, Cadena-antigua, Passar-de-espaldas, Passamanos, Enlace, Amolador); (Explicacion-de-las-Diferencias-de-las-Cuadradas) 50-entry list of the canonical figures for the 4-pair and Seguidillas: Rueda-de-todos, Paseo-de-Minuete, Alemania, Dos-Cruces, Dos-Ruedas, Puente, Caracol, Rueda-de-palmadas, Rueda-de-todos, Rueda-de-corteza, Rueda-de-espaldas, Cruz-de-Malta, Cambiar-de-Compañeras, Dos-Ruedas-en-una, Dos-caras, Quatro-caras, Los-pares-principales, Rueda-los-quatro-Cavalleros, Cruz-los-quatro-Cavalleros, Cruz-doble, and so on; (Como-se-han-de-bailar-las-Contradanzas) a structural typology of the 4 formation-formats: Quadradas (4-pair square); de Dos Pares (2-pair); Largas (all-men-on-one-side + all-ladies-on-other-side, Inglesas/Escocesas-like long-set); Redondas (same initial plant as Largas but first-man-rotates-through-all-the-ladies forming a circle); (20-Contradanza-Corpus) 20 numbered Contradanzas A/E/I/O/V × Larga/de-Dos-Pares/en-Quadro(Cuadrada)/Redonda, all un-named and left for the aficionado to title (per the Preface); (Explicacion-de-los-Passos) definitions of the Rigodón-pas (contratiempo saltado + cabriola/assamblé), Boreá-pas (dos-doblados = medio-cupé + paso-andado-sobre-punta + medio-salto), and Floreo-pas (demi-coupé + 2 pasos andados), with the alternating left/right-foot rule for consecutive Boreás and Floreos; (Breve-Tratado) appended 'Breve Tratado de los Passos del Danzar à la Española, que oy se estilan en las Seguidillas, Fandango, y otros Tañidos' (SECOND IMPRESION corregida, also under the Pablo Minguet name) — passes vocabulary for Spanish Seguidillas/Fandango/Tañidos. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: The 1757 Quadernillo documents the UN-NAMED-CONTRADANZA 'aficionado-self-name' stage of Spanish ball-contredanse compilation (5 vowels × 4 formations as purely structural variations to be individually named by the dancer), 3-12 years earlier than the NAMED-CONTRADANZA compendia of LOC-1769-MONSORT (40 named Valencia contradanzas) + LOC-1774-MARSET (28 named Madrid contradanzas) + LOC-1775-IBARRA (12 named Madrid Prince-of-Asturias contradanzas). The 50-entry diferencias-glossary overlaps substantially with the LOC-1760c-MINGUET Noble Arte treatise vocabulary, establishing Minguet's figure-vocabulary as stable across the 1757→1760c Madrid Spanish-contradanza-pedagogy period; Irol's 1757 Quadernillo is thus a DIRECT-PREDECESSOR PUBLICATION to the c.1760 Minguet compendium and preserves a parallel body of figure-vocabulary under the same author. ROSETTA STONE LINKS: 20 new H-BAR-CD canonicals for the 5 vowel × 4 formation matrix; Rosetta appearances to H-BAR-CD Minguet-1760c vocabulary-overlaps (Alemana ↔ Alemania, Macarena-plate ↔ Fandango-plate); figure-vocabulary pre-canon for LOC-1769-MONSORT and LOC-1774-MARSET. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (Rigodón/Boreá/Floreo pas defined at pas-level; contradanza descriptions at figure-narrative level with named diferencias). (1757). Imported from local collection.