A Digital Catalogue of the

Pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the

Second Edition

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my gratitude to the following owners, booksellers, archives, and archivists for permission to examine their collections and for the invaluable assistance they generously provided:

In addition to those cited above, I am immensely grateful to the following people and institutions for their assistance with the reconstruction of the Ashburnham fragment distributed by the Caxton Club in their 1905 leaf-book edition of E. Gordon Duff’s William Caxton (their names appear with apologies to anyone I have failed to acknowledge): Amherst College Library, John Lancaster, Curator of Special Collections. Auckland City Library, Donald Kerr, Rare Books Librarian. Boston Public Library, R. Eugene Zepp, Reference Librarian, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. La Casa del Libro, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Araceli Ortiz-Azancot. The Caxton Caxton Leaf Book 47 Club of Chicago, Frank J. Piehl, Archivist; Michael Thompson, President. Christie’s, Jennifer Murray; Christie’s, New York, Kate Werble, Auction Administrator. Detroit Public Library, Jane Whitson, Manager, Rare Books Collection; Dawn Eurich, Archivist, Burton Historical Collection. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., Rachel Doggett, Lydia Reed, Elizabeth A. Walsh, Heather Wolfe, Laetitia Yeandle. Grand Rapids Public Library, Jennifer Morrison, History and Special Collections. Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Pamela Parker, David Weston. Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., Aldo R. Perdomo, Mary L. Robertson. Illinois State University, Normal, Bruce Stoffel, Milner Library. Indiana University, Bloomington, Giuseppe Baglivi, David C. Greenebaum, Lilly Library. Keio University, Tokyo, Takami Matsuda, Satoko Tokunaga. H. P. Kraus, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Joshua Lipton. Lehigh University, Ilhan Citak, Special Collections Assistant. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Peter M. VanWingen, Specialist for the Book Arts. Merton College, see Oxford University. Newberry Library, Chicago, Paul H. Gehl, Alan Leopold. New York Public Library, Stephen Crook, Librarian (Berg Collection); Daniel Tierney, Rare Books Librarian. Northern Illinois University Libraries, DeKalb, Kay Shelton, Rare Books and Special Collections. Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., R. Russell Maylone, Curator, Special Collections, and Sigrid Perry, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections. Oxford University, Fiona Wilkes, Merton College. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Christine R. Bailey, Pattee Library. Pequot Library, Southport, Conn., Danielle Carriera. Philadelphia Free Library. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Anna Lou Ashby, Inge Dupont, Charles E. Pierce, Jr., Katherine Reagan, William M. Voelkle. Princeton University, Mark R. Farrell, Margaret M. Sherry, Don C. Skemer, Firestone Library. Paul Robertson, California. Rochester Institute of Technology, David Pankow, Curator, Cary Graphic Arts Collection. San Diego Public Library, Richard Crawford, Special Collections. San Francisco Public Library, Asa Peavy, Program Manager, Marjorie G. & Carl W. Stern Book Center. St. Vincent College Library, Latrobe, Penn., Rev. Fr. Chrysotom B. Schlimm, O.S.B. Dorothy Sloan Books, Austin, Tex., Peter Oliver. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Shelley Cox, Rare Book Librarian, Special Collections Research Center. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Eric White, Curator of Special Collections, Bridwell Library. Spokane Public Library, Nancy Campau. Stanford University, Polly Armstrong, Public Services Manager. Swann Auction Galleries, New York, Marco Tomaschett, Consignments Administrator, Books and Manuscripts. Toshiyuki Takamiya, Tokyo. Toledo Museum of Art, Julie Melby, Associate Curator of Graphic Arts. Tulane University Libraries, New Orleans, Wilbur E. Meneray. University of California-Berkeley, Anthony Bliss, Bancroft Library. University of Colorado- Boulder, Kris McCusker, Special Collections. University of Delaware Library, Timothy D. Murray, Head, Special Collections. University of Glasgow; see Hunterian Museum. University of Illinois at Chicago, Gretchen Lagana, Special Collections Librarian and Curator of the Jane Addams Memorial Collection, Richard J. Daley Library. University of Iowa Libraries, Amy Cooper, Special Collections, Librarian. University of Manchester, Eng., Glenise Matheson; Dr. Peter McNiven, Head of Special Collections; D. W. Riley, Keeper of Printed Books, John Rylands University Library. University of Michigan, Kathryn L. Beam, Curator, Humanities Collection, Special Collections Library. University of Missouri-Columbia, Troy Gordon, Special Collections, Ellis Library. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Elizabeth Chenault, Nancy Frazier, and staff, Rare Books Room, Wilson Library. University of North Carolina-Greensboro, William K. Finley, Special Collections Librarian. University of Texas at Austin, Cathy Henderson, Richard W. Oram, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. University of Ulster Library, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, J. F. E. McLaughlin, University Archivist and Rare Books Curator. Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, Harriet Wallman. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Geraldine White, National Art Library. Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, Erin Davis. Wellesley College, Marilyn Hatch, Ruth Rogers, Jill Triplett, Book Arts Collection. Williams College, Wayne G. Hammond, Assistant Librarian, Chapin Library. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., Elizabeth Fairman, Rare Book Librarian. Yale University, New Haven, Conn., Robert Babcock, Ellen R. Cordes, Ralph W. Franklin, Stephen C. Jones, Patricia Middleton, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Thomas Riedlinger, Boulder, CO.

For their help in various ways I thank Mark Allen, Norman Blake, Barbara Bordalejo, Orietta Da Rold, A. I. Doyle, A. S. G. Edwards, Judy Fisher, Karen Gould, Jeremy J. Griffiths, Ralph Hanna III, Simon Horobin, George Keiser, Paul Needham, Charles A. Owen, Jr., Helen Phillips, Daniel J. Ransom, Ernestine Ruggiers, Pamela R. Robinson, Peter Robinson, Jeremy J. Smith, Thorlac Turville-Petre, Linda Ehrsam Voigts, and David Wallace. I am grateful to Piero Boitani and Stefano Manferlotti for their help in my work at the Royal Library in Naples. I would also like to thank the following for support provided to the project over the years: the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Bibliographical Society of London, and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University: the Newman Library, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and its former Dean, Jerome Niles, the former College of Arts & Sciences, the Department of English, and the Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities.

I am grateful to Linne R. Mooney, the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, and the Leverhulme Trust for their support in the fall of 2007 and 2008, during which time some of the final work for this project was carried out. This project would not have achieved anything like its final form, indeed may not have reached completion, without the continued support of Peter Robinson and the Canterbury Tales Project. The current version of the Catalogue owes a further debt to David Hill Radcliffe and the Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities (CATH).

Finally, I acknowledge a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid to my wife, Sara Thorne-Thomsen, for her patience and understanding during my long and frequent disappearances to rare book rooms around the world.