Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections

Other related names

• Borma, Jan, former owner
• del Campo, F. F, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977671453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1280272899
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39c6sm2d http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366256

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1790 and 1810?

Summary

Notebook with 10 to 12 printed rebus cards in various formats and colors pasted to each recto and numbered in ink; corresponding numbered solutions are written in ink on each verso. There are a total of 259 cards (number 2 and number 44 are missing, but two extra are pasted inside the back cover) and 258 solutions. The notebook is a single gathering in quarto format of 22 leaves with a contemporary pattern paper wrapper, rebacked with white paper.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Jan Borma (stamp, inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by F. F. del Campo (stamp, f. 1r).
   
• Sold by Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books (Woodstock, England), 2020.
   

Subjects topical

• Word games--France

Genres

• rebuses
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, French--19th century
• Manuscripts, French--18th century

Keywords

• 18th century
• 19th century
• French
• France
• Paper
• Illustration
• Games

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 2067: Album of rebus cards and solutions are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Album of rebus cards and solutions