Recueil d'enigmes.

Abstract:

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).

Date:

1790

Description:

Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

Identifier:

9952546393503681; (OCoLC)ocn765975681; (OCoLC)765975681; (PU)5254639-penndb-Voyager

Language:

French

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.

Publisher:

[Paris?, France], [1790?]

Subject:

Codices.; Poems.; Riddles (document genres); Manuscripts, European.; Sonnets.; Manuscripts, French.; Satires (literary works)

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Origin: Written in France, probably Paris, ca. 1790 (satirical poem on the Assemblée nationale constituante, founded June 1789, f. i recto; riddle with the answer l'année 1790, f. 114r).; Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f. 1r).; Foliation: Paper, 128; [i-iii, 1-125]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; 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.; Binding: Contemporary (late 18th-century) mottled calf, gilt spine with title Enigm.; French.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 1608