miscellany vs collection

miscellany and collection both are nouns.

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

As nouns, collection is a hypernym of miscellany; that is, collection is a word with a broader meaning than miscellany:

Other hypernyms of miscellany include accumulation, aggregation, assemblage.

miscellany (noun)	collection (noun)
an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.	the act of gathering something together
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things	a publication containing a variety of works
	request for a sum of money
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole