People in Loges

[-JKP-]

-JKP -
I'm interested in your description of these various towers etc. as loges - theatre boxes.

Has it something to do with a reading of Frances Yates book?

Also - though I suppose I should look it up myself - do you know the date for the first use of the word 'loges'?  I ask because if it's attested early, it could have been the idea intended by the original.

PS - I think the key to the containers around the calendar folios is more the idea of sparks, cinta, scintilla, but that's just my opinion.

I'm a music/theater lover and it amuses me to call them loges, as though the nymphs are performing a parody, an in-joke, to our consternation. I didn't get the term from anyone else.

I refer to the baskets/loges that look like little space vehicles as zoomers. I use these words for convenience because they are short and descriptive and slightly ironic.