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Title

Guerino Meschino

Authors

• Andrea, da Barberino, b. ca. 1370

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 16
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122528475
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1469155

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1472

Place

Italy

Summary

Romance about Guerino, son of an Italian prince. Separated from his parents as a baby and deprived of his royal status (dubbed "Meschino," "Wretched"), he embarks on a number of chivalric adventures, travels the world, discovers his identity, and returns to recapture his kingdom. This work is also known as Guerino il Meschino, Guerrino detto il Meschino and Meschino da Durazzo.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Early title "Guerino Meschino" is written along the lower fore-edge of the manuscript; later title "Guerino" is written on the front cover board.
   
• A brief description of the manuscript in Italian is pasted inside the front cover.
   
• Generally fragile; portions of the manuscript are in very poor condition. Upper part of each page severely dampstained throughout the manuscript, sometimes affecting legibility of the first few lines; however, the parts of each page unaffected by this staining are in excellent condition. Bottom part of f. 1 torn away, but no text missing. Binding and covers loose; spine missing. Back cover board broken in half and held together only by pasted-down endpaper. There is evidence of worm damage.
   
• The text of Guerino il Meschino was first printed at Padua in 1473, but the printed text differs in many respects from the text of this and other manuscripts.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Fleur, 6597 or 6599.

Extent

214 leaves : 236 x 160 (165 x 108) mm. bound to 235 x 163 mm

Collation

Paper, 214; 1-19¹⁰20-21¹²; [1-214]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords, lower center verso on the last leaf of each gathering.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary square wooden boards sewn on three thongs threaded through the boards and pegged. Metal catches on lower cover decorated and engraved with Gothic capital "S."

Layout

Written in 32 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Illuminated 4-line initial in blue, green and gold (f. 1). Small initials in red, with guide letters usually visible in the left margin.

Script

Written in a humanist script.

Provenance

• The bookplate of Graf L. v. d. Pahlen is pasted inside the front cover; "Phillippe" is scribbled in plummet in the lower margin of f. 164r.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 1 December 1987, lot 34.
   
• Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog B15 (1990), no. 8.
   
• Formerly owned by Lawrence J. Schoenberg, LJS 18.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 1993.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--15th century
• Romances, Italian--Specimens

Genres

• Codices
• Romances (literary genre)
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Literature -- Poetry
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 1r
• fol. 106r — Owner signature, f. 106r
• fol. 164r — Owner signature, f. 164r
• fol. 164r — Drawing, Bird[?], f. 164r