Details

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
riddles (document genres)
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

352 "charades" (riddles giving clues to the first and second syllables and the whole of a two-syllable answer), with a list of answers at the back. The charades are separated by printed borders pasted in. Newspaper clippings on "charards" or charades are pasted on the pastedowns and endpapers.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine label; date from bookseller's description.
Foliation: Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Pasted geometric and floral borders.
Binding: Contemporary sheep with blind ruled borders, original metal clasp intact.
Origin: Possibly written in England, circa 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 2004.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 960

OCLC:

155925640

Access Restriction:

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