Cultura umanistica e circolazione libraria nella Marca: lo zibaldone di magister Melchiorre da Sarnano (1435-1445)

This article examines manuscript MANOS.D.28 (ex E.M) of the Biblioteca comunale di Sarnano, identified as a zibaldone compiled by magister Melchiorre da Sarnano, a schoolmaster active in Recanati between 1442 and 1447. The codex – a miscellany of didactic materials, classical commentaries, rhetorical exercises, epistolary drafts, and personal notes in Latin and vernacular – reflects both the professional needs and the humanistic formation of its compiler. The study focuses particularly on a book list (cc. 133v-134v), offering a transcription and analysis of its contents. The list, comprising approximately one hundred items, illuminates Melchiorre’s library and his alignment with the mid-fifteenth-century humanist educational canon.