Una miscellanea cinquecentesca di varia rimeria e i suoi antichi possessori

There is an aspect of ancient books “historicity” that is often little considered: the relationship between single exemplars of different editions which have been bound together. The analysis of a small size Bolognese XVIth century miscellany provides a classic study example. First of all because one of the editions makes it possibile to think about handprint techniques; secondly because the binding is contemporaneous and can be geographically situated; thirdly because the ancient owner of the small collection of these poetical and theatrical texts can be identified.