Acknowledgements

The database was compiled and constituted by Hanno Wijsman.

The migration of the database (MySQL and XML-TEI), web interface and electronic edition have been made by Guillaume Halbout, computer student and temporary member of the Editorial and digital publications service (SEPE) of the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, under the authority of Thierry Buquet (SEPE, webmaster of IRHT) and Cyril Masset, technical manager of the Telma platform.

Several institutions have made possible my research over the years, for which am very grateful: the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University ( Institute for History ); The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) ; the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS, Paris-Orléans) ; the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme – Belgian Science Policy – phase 5/10 (2001-2006) ; the Niels Stensen Stichting (Amsterdam); Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (K.U. Leuven) ; and Leiden University Library . Other bodies that greatly facilitated my research were the Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies; the Royal Library of Belgium ; the Bibliothèque nationale de France ; and the many other libraries and institutions or private collections that have allowed me to study the medieval manuscripts they preserve.

It is my pleasure to thank, with profound gratitude, the numerous people who have contributed to this database by generously helping me, advising me, and inspiring me in my research over the last dozen years. Though I cannot go into detail here I would like to thank them all, naming especially:

Renaud Adam (Brussels); François Avril (Paris); Barbara Baert (Leuven); Bruce Barker Benfield (Oxford); Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld (Tilburg); Wim Blockmans (Leiden-Wassenaar-Ghent); Marc Boone, (Ghent); Ivan Boserup (Copenhagen); Bernard Bousmanne (Brussels); André Bouwman (Leiden); Carla Bozzolo (Paris); Sarah Bromberg (Pittsburgh); Hanneke de Bruin (Leiden); Laurent Brun (Ottawa); Anne van Buren (New York-Paris); Thierry Buquet (Orléans); Frederik Buylaert (Ghent); Lorne Campbell (London); Bert Cardon (Leuven); Jean-Marie Cauchies (Brussels); Gregory Clark (Sewanee); Pierre Cockshaw (Brussels); Maria Colombo-Timelli (Milan); Hans Cools (Leiden-Leuven); Godfried Croenen (Liverpool); Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan (Paris); Mario Damen (Leiden); Marguerite Debae (Brussels); Alix and Roger De Kesel (Deurle-Latem); Lieve De Kesel (Ghent); Brigitte Dekeyser (Leuven); Thierry Delcourt (Paris); Martine De Reu (Ghent); Jean-Luc Deuffic (Saint-Denis); Pieter Donche (Berchem-Antwerpen); Kathleen Doyle (London); Anne Dubois (Brussels); Jean-Michel Ennuyer (Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire); Anke Esch (Leuven); Reindert Falkenburg (Leiden-Abu Dhabi); Thomas Falmagne (Luxembourg-Frankfurt); Ingrid Falque (Liège); Véronique Flammang (Brussels-Leiden); Mitch Fraas (Philadelphia); Eduard Frunzeanu (Paris); Jean-Philippe Genet (Paris); Marc Gil (Lille); José Luis Gonzalo Sánchez Molero (Madrid); Marie-Thérèse Gousset (Paris); Brigitte Gullath (Munich); Peter Gumbert (Leiden); Steven Gunn (Oxford); Jörn Günther (Hamburg); Laurent Hablot (Poitiers); Jelle Haemers (Ghent); Guillaume Halbout (Orleans); Christopher de Hamel (Cambridge); Ilona Hans-Collas (Paris); Helmar Härtel (Wolfenbüttel); Elizabeth den Hartog (Leiden); Christian Heck (Lille); Xavier Hermand (Namur); Joris Corin Heyder (Berlin/Würzburg); Torsten Hiltmann (Paris-Münster); Peter Hoppenbrouwers (Amsterdam-Leiden); Renaat Hus (Westmalle); Dirk Imhof (Antwerp); Antheun Janse (Leiden); Sophie Jolivet (Dijon); Henk ’t Jong (Dordrecht-Leiden); Renée Joosse (Amsterdam) ; Ann Kelders (Brussels); Peter Kidd (London); Jan de Klerk (Leiden); Elena Koroleva (Paris); Anne Korteweg (The Hague); Thomas Kren (Los Angeles); Erik Kwakkel (Leiden); Marie-Pierre Lafitte (Paris); Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly (Leiden-The Hague); Jean-Baptiste Lebigue (Orléans); Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin (Lille); Anne-Marie Legaré (Lille-Paris); Anton van der Lem (Leiden); Claudine Lemaire (Brussels); Anne-Françoise Leurquin-Labie (Paris); Sylvie Lefèvre (Paris-New York); Léon van Liebergen (Uden); John Lowden (London); Hélène Loyau (Paris); James Marrow (Princeton-Cambridge); Cyril Masset (Orléans); Scot McKendrick (London); Aart Mekking (Leiden); Ton Meulman (’s-Hertogenbosch); Marie Mianowski (Nantes); Hans Mol (Leiden-Leeuwarden); István Monok (Budapest); Martin Morard (Paris); Elizabeth Morrison (Los Angeles); Vianney Muller (Nancy); Ernst-Jan Munnik (Leiden); Danielle Muzerelle (Paris); Donatella Nebbiai (Paris); Ina Nettekoven (Ramsen); Aart Noordzij (Leiden); Ludovic Nys (Valenciennes); Johan Oosterman (Nijmegen); Frits van Oostrom (Leiden-Utrecht); Ezio Ornato (Paris); Klaus Oschema (Heidelberg-Bern); Joachim Ott (Jena); Stella Panayotova (Cambridge); Werner Paravicini (Paris-Kiel); Jacques Paviot (Paris); Todor Todorov Petev (Leuven-Princeton); Andrew Pettegree (Saint Andrews); Monique Peyrafort (Paris); Jean Picardeau (Boulleret-Dunkerque); Herman Pleij (Amsterdam); Lee Preedy (Antwerp); Jan de Putter (Leiden); Claudia Rabel (Paris); Matthew Reeves (London) ; Gert-Jan van Rijn (Leiden); Sophia Rochmes (Los Angeles); Kate Rudy (The Hague-London); David Rundle (Oxford); Margaret Sarosi (Oxford); Pascal Schandel (Paris); Max Schmitz (Louvain-la-Neuve); Bertrand Schnerb (Lille); Dirk Schoenaers (Liverpool); Anne Schoysman (Siena); Pippa Shirley (Aylesbury); Louis Sicking (Leiden); Graeme Small (Glasgow); Maurits Smeyers (Leuven); Justine Smithuis (Leiden); Alessandra Sorbello Staub (Stuttgart); Peter Stabel (Antwerp); Rombert Stapel (Leiden-Leeuwarden); Arie van Steensel (Leiden); Robert Stein (Leiden); Bernhard Sterchi (Zürich); Patricia Stirnemann (Paris); Susie Speakman Sutch (Ghent); Patricia Stirnemann (Paris); Slawomir Szyller (Warsaw); Heribert Tenschert (Ramsen); Marie-Hélène Tesnière (Paris); Emanuelle Toulet (Chantilly); Anne-Marie Turcan (Paris); Piotr Tylus (Cracow); Silvia Uhlemann (Darmstadt); José Luis del Valle (El Escorial); Baudouin Van den Abeele (Louvain-la-Neuve); Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens (Brussels); Arjo Vanderjagt (Groningen); Jan Van der Stock (Leuven); Tania Van Hemelryck (Louvain-la-Neuve); Céline Van Hoorebeeck (Brussels); Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (Brussels); Jos van der Ven (’s-Hertogenbosch); Annemieke Verboon (Leiden-Paris); Michiel Verweij (Brussels); Livia Visser-Fuchs (Baarn); Ed van der Vlist (The Hague); Marie-Laure Waill (Besançon); Malcolm Walsby (Saint Andrews); Geert Warnar (Leiden); Jeroen Westerman (Utrecht); Job Weststrate (Leiden); Martin Wittek (Brussels); Helen Wüstefeld (Utrecht/Basel); Carolyn Yates (New York).