Entremeses y mojigangas para autos sacramentales: Burlas profanas y veras sagradas

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discoveries up to over a hundred. Mar ıa Luisa L opez-Vidriero Abell o’s short paper, “Otras miradas sobre los inventarios de librer ıas nobiliarias: Una nueva memoria ante el patrimonio bibliogr afico,” is densely theoretical. She argues that inventories of library holdings are outmoded and inadequate in the context of contemporary historiography that draws upon a range of disciplines hitherto strictly separate. The periodization of history has also been reconfigured according to economic, demographic, and social movements. Book history and the history of reading have evolved alongside this approach, focusing on the circulation of books and manuscripts and their use by different individuals. The paper would have benefitted greatly from the inclusion of illustrative examples. Juli an Mart ın Abad, “Los fondos de car acter bibliof ılico en las colecciones de los incunables de Espa~ na” offers a chronological survey of the private collections of incunables now in institutional libraries in Spain, acquired by donation, expropriation and (more recently) purchase. Curiously, of the collections which were acquired for the Biblioteca Nacional, only those of Gayangos and Velasco y Ceballos (incorporating the library of the III Marqu es de la Romana) are considered quantitatively “great collections” with 217 and 198 incunables, respectively. Giuseppe Mazzocchi, “Libros espa~ noles antiguos en bibliotecas italianas: El caso de de la Biblioteca Universitaria de Pav ıa,” reports on the project to catalogue Spanish books (lato sensu, including Hispanic authors in any language and books on Hispanic topics): four hundred copies from the sixteenth century and nearly eight hundred from the seventeenth. In Venice books in Spanish peaked in 1551–1600 but were always outnumbered by translations into Italian. In Spanish-ruled Milan, printing in Spanish was more common in 1600–20, intended for resident Spaniards; subsequently translations were more common, for an Italian elite. The studies gathered here celebrate the best of old-school historical bibliography and extend and build on it. Spanish bibliography has long been keen to celebrate its heroes— Rodr ıguez-Mo~ nino and Asensio in the middle decades of the twentieth century and now Infantes and Mazzocchi at the turn of the twenty-first century—noted for academic rigour and the uncovering of little-known material. These contributions show the variety and vitality of bibliographical work in Spain.