[Fortune-telling game

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unitid

{"value"=>"19359", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"[Fortune-telling game"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"178-?", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"questionable"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 v. (26 p.)"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"33 cm"}], "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Copybook, containing the pieces and instructions for a fortune-telling parlor game. Includes cloth bag, numbered \"4,\" holding cardboard squares with Roman numerals; the rules of the game (\"Explanation,\" p. 2), a chart of twenty-one numbered questions, a table of celestial bodies, and a list of more than 300 possible answers, in verse.|||The questions are arranged under the headings \"Masculine\" (\"Shall I be successful in my Amours?\"), Feminine (\"How do the Men like me?\") and \"Epicene\" (\"How many children of both sexes shall I have?\"). A player was to choose a question, remember its number, select a number from the cloth bag, and use both numbers to find the answer under the indicated planet or constellation (\"Be content with Dogs and Cats / For you will ne'er have Human Brats\").|||The game's creator(s) may have left it uncompleted: the instructions say to draw a number \"out of one of the Bags, on the Cover,\" but there is only one bag; and there are many blank spaces in the list of answers.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"date"=>"01/27/2001", "source"=>"John Drury", "method"=>"Purchase", "extent"=>"1 o", "value"=>"Purchase, John Drury, 01/27/2001"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>\"The date of this manuscript is assumed to be ca. 1780-1810 ... It has been suggested, however, that the use of the original name \"Georgium Sidus\" for the newly discovered planet Uranus puts it in the period immediately post-1781, the date when the planet was discovered by Herschel and named by him in honour of his patron King George III.\"--From dealer's description</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Binding: Gray paper wrappers. In white envelope. (Shelved with oversize MSS.)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Copybook, containing the pieces and instructions for a fortune-telling parlor game. Includes cloth bag, numbered \"4,\" holding cardboard squares with Roman numerals; the rules of the game (\"Explanation,\" p. 2), a chart of twenty-one numbered questions, a table of celestial bodies, and a list of more than 300 possible answers, in verse."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Fortune-telling game, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

extent_statement

1 v. (26 p.), 33 cm; 1 v. (26 p.), 33 cm

origination

{"type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator", "value"=>"[Anonymous]"}

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