Abstract
At the very heart of this article is a receipt written by the Catalan bishop Iohannes Saguini in Rome in 1457. He did so upon retrieving some books which had been previously lent to Pope Nicholas V. This document proves the return of two manuscripts and the disappearance of a third, the most precious, while providing a cross section of the reading interests of the first humanist pope. Likewise, it confirms the not so clear attitude of Nicholas V’s successor, Callixtus III, and his Apostolic Datary and right-hand man, Cosme de Monserrat. The precise description of these manuscripts made by the same owner not only allows us to identify them with some samples still in existance, but also provides a very interesting data for the analysis of the historical lexicon both in palaeography and codicology.
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