Acknowledgements
Although I am its sole editor, this book was a collaborative effort. I am grateful, first and foremost, to the contributors for giving their time, energy, and expertise to the book’s individual chapters. I offer thanks to Julian Deahl, who saw the need for this project, devised its title, and asked me to edit it; I also thank Kate Hammond for seeing the project through to its production phase after Julian’s retirement. The Bibliothèque nationale de France offered permission to reproduce the manuscript images that appear here. I edited portions of the manuscript in 2016–2017 while on leave with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; the project would undoubtedly have taken much longer to complete without this support. I thank my skillful copy-editor, Marianne Noble, for catching many oversights. My special thanks go to my dear friend and over-qualified translator Amy Heneveld, and to my equally over-qualified music editor, Anne Ibos-Augé. Anne’s expert eye and deft music-engraving skills are evident throughout the musical examples, and her supporting materials and appendices have greatly increased the utility of this book.