Title: Alcune copie dell’“Almanach” del 1535 di François Rabelais
Abstract: An investigation on the ancient book collection of the Seminar of Alessandria, survived to the flood of 1994, led to the discovery of a series of copies of the 1535 Almanach of Rabelais. The existence of the text was already known, but just a couple of small fragments had previously been discovered, in Paris. Now we have the entire text, in many copies, each of which slightly incomplete. The copies of the Almanach were used as flyleaves for the volumes of an edition of Giason del Maino's Commentaries on the Corpus Iuris. An accurate work of physical and virtual restoration, and the study of the position of the folios in the volumes of the Commentaries, can help to see some connections between the Almanach, the Commentaries and other works printed by Gryphius and Juste in Lyon, and the total lack of interest shown by the Italian owners of the volumes (probably students of the Faculty of Law in Pavia) towards the Almanach, even if Rabelais' printed signature was extremely evident.