anthology vs miscellany

anthology and miscellany both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
anthology	Yes	No	No	No
miscellany	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, miscellany is a hyponym of anthology; that is, miscellany is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than anthology:

anthology: a collection of selected literary passages
miscellany: an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

Other hyponyms of anthology include divan, diwan, florilegium, garland, omnibus.

anthology (noun)	miscellany (noun)
a collection of selected literary passages	an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things