Summary The nineteenth century saw the rapid development of textual criticism for establishing the "best" and "most authentic" forms of both Ancient and Mediaeval texts thanks to the method perfected by Karl Lachmann, who based himself on the insights gained during the eighteenth century. Lachmann's method has been further refined by later philologists, with, most interestingly, the use of computers in establishing the mutual relations of manuscript witnesses since the last decades of the twentieth century. However, the interest in what form the texts, both Ancient and Mediaeval, were actually circulating in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, has been slow to emerge as an area of scholarly interest. In other words: what did the readers actually get in front of their eyes, and acted upon as, say, doctors, historians, theologians between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries? This volume explores the Late Medieval and Renaissance transmission of texts of different genres, languages and periods from the book historical point of view, taking into consideration not only the textual but also the material aspect of the traditions. The authors include eminent specialists as well as mid- and early career scholars. TABLE OF CONTENTS Outi Merisalo, Introduction I. Roman law Mario Varvaro, Note sulla definizione della possessio nel Festo Farnesiano (Napoli, BNN, IV. A. 3) II. Medicine Stefania Fortuna, La tradizione latina di Galeno e il De farmaciis Monica H. Green, Recovering 'Ancient' Gynaecology. The Humanist Rediscovery of the Eleventh-Century Gynaecological Corpus Iolanda Ventura, Una trasmissione complessa da rivedere. Appunti sul corpus di scritti di Giovanni di Saint-Amand Vivian Nutton, The Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Script and Print III. Religious literature Elena Parina, Maria Volkonskaya, Middle Welsh texts on the Virtues of the Mass in their European context IV. Historiography Samu Niskanen, Copyists and redactors. Towards a prolegomenon to the editio princeps of Peregrinatio Antiochie per Vrbanum papam facta Jakub Kujawi?ski, Saved in Translation. Vernacular translations from Paris, BNF, fr. 688, as witnesses of lost texts, manuscripts and readings Concetta Bianca, Revisione d'autore o intervento ideologico? A proposito del De expeditione in Turcos di Biondo Flavio Miika Kuha, The Reception of Humanist Historiography in Venice. Simultaneous Copying of the De gestis, moribus et nobilitate civitatis Venetiarum by Lorenzo de' Monaci at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century Susanna Niiranen, From Prison to Print. Johannes Messenius' Scondia illustrata as a co-product of early modern prison writing V. Military literature Joëlle Ducos, De la glose à la parenthèse. Traduire Végèce en français au XVIe siècle VI. Poetry Lorenzo Amato, Le serie di madrigali alla Strozzi. Una prima ricognizione e analisi socio-culturale di un genere poetico granducale Paul Gwynne, Problems Mainly Propertian. Francesco Sperulo and Renaissance Commentary Abbreviations of Library Names Index codicum Index rerum Index nominum Illustrations