Acknowledgements
First and foremost, we would like to thank the Wellcome Trust for funding our work: for Petros Bouras-Vallianatos’ Research Fellowship (200372) at King’s College London and for Barbara Zipser’s Wellcome Trust University Award (048921) at Royal Holloway University of London. Special thanks go to Vivian Nutton for his invaluable advice on the structure of the volume at an early stage of this project. Robin Surratt copy-edited a number of chapters to a very high standard. Ianto Jocks compiled the index lemmata with his usual accuracy. Finally, we would like to thank the series editor, Kyriakos N. Demetriou, for accepting the volume, the anonymous peer reviewers for their comments, and the administrative and editorial team at Brill for the efficient and competent manner with which they saw the book through production.
We would like also to acknowledge the following libraries for providing us with images and permission to reproduce them: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna – Biblioteca Universitaria (Bologna), Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Florence), University Library (Glasgow), Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF (Paris), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, ÖNB (Vienna). We are also grateful to Lawrence Antony for providing his very useful software (AntConc and AntFileConverter) gratis. Of course, this project would not have been possible without the contributors, to whom we are most grateful for their excellent efforts. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Piero Tassinari.
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Barbara Zipser
July 2018