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Charades.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- riddles (documents)
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased, 2004.
- Physical Description:
- 94 leaves : paper ; 94 x 154 mm bound to 100 x 157 mm
- Production:
- [England?], [circa 1800]
- 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.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 960
- OCLC:
- 155925640
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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