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

Title

Charades

Call number

Ms. Codex 960
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3595873
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3595873

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

circa 1800

Place

England?

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.
   

Extent

94 leaves : 94 x 154 mm. bound to 100 x 157 mm

Foliation

Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary sheep with blind ruled borders, original metal clasp intact.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Purchased, 2004.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Riddles (document genres)
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

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