Sent in draft version number four with some 'minor' changes and an additional paragraph on an important  'why' question.

Why this corpus? Why research into ownership marks and marginalia in books printed in Lyon in the 16th century?
16th century Lyon was affluent, industrious, cosmopolitan and, after Paris, the most important cultural city in Renaissance France, which is reflected in the book production of 16th century printers of Lyon such as Sebastien Gryphe, Jean de Tournes, Charles Pesnot, Guillaume Laemarius, Guillaume Gazeau and Jacques Myt (Baudrier 1895, Cartier 1937, Gültlingen 2002, Mouren 2008).
The printers mentioned above were part of the enlightened humanist movement. Reading and writing were closely linked to education which did not end with schooling but was a lifelong experience of annotating and copying, ‘The humanist reader read with pen in hand’ (Grafton 2003, p.206). It can be assumed that a sizeable part of the 16th century Lyon collection in Special Collections has been owned and read by readers seeking education. Research into the traces of use left by these readers in the corpus aims to give insight into humanist reading customs.