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Title

Recueil d'enigmes

Call number

Ms. Codex 1608
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5254639
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5254639

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

ca. 1790

Place

Paris?, France

Summary

Collection of over 400 riddles in verse (numbered up to 345), with answers, which are usually objects but occasionally abstract nouns, provided. The riddles alternate between sonnet form and shorter verses for much of the volume, but some longer riddles appear toward the end. The pastedowns and endleaves (f. i-iii, 1-4, 124-125) contain epigrams, proverbs, satirical material, and an imaginary political book list (Biblioteque moderne ou notice abregée des nouvelles brochures de l'usage du sceau, f. i verso).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

128 leaves : 189 x 132 (142-161 x 92-100) mm. bound to 196 x 140 mm

Foliation

Paper, 128; [i-iii, 1-125]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 18th-century) mottled calf, gilt spine with title Enigm.

Layout

Written in 18-25 lines; text block framed with double ink lines and riddles separated by double lines; answers to riddles written vertically outside the left edge of the text block.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Possible early ownership inscription: Thomasset (f. iii recto, 1r).
   
• Sold by Justin Croft (Faversham, England) and Simon Beattie (Chesham, England), their joint catalog More Manuscripts (2011), no. 43.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Riddles (document genres)
• Satires
• Sonnets
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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