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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In 1965 the Curators of the Bodleian Library awarded me the Gordon Duff
Prize for an essay on 'Printers' and authors' privileges in France and the Low
Countries in the sixteenth century'. This was a great encouragement to
continue research in this field. I have also to thank the Board of the Faculty of
Modern and Medieval Languages of Oxford University and Somcrvillc
College, Oxford, for several terms of sabbatical leave to pursue this work, and
Somerville, in addition, for a research grant made to me in the term after my
retirement.
I am glad to acknowledge the unfailing kindness of the archivists and staff
of the Archives Nationales, Paris, over a number of years. I am grateful also to
the authorities of the Archives Departcmentalcs of the Haute Garonne,
Toulouse, and of the Gironde, Bordeaux, for giving me access to their records,
though I was unsuccessful there in finding the originals of book-privileges
granted by their respective Parlements. As most of my sources have proved to
be in printed books, I have to thank particularly the librarians and staff of the
Bodleian Library, the Cambridge University Library, the British Library; in
Paris the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Mazarine Library, the Arsenal, Sainte-
Genevieve, and the Facultc de Medecine; and in Poitiers the Bibliotheque
Municipale. At the Bibliotheque Municipale of I Lyon received much
assistance from Monsieur Henri-Jean Martin and from his successor Mon-
sieur Guy Parguez, at Bordeaux from Monsieur Pierre Botineau, at Toulouse
from Monsieur Christian Peligry, and at Niort from Monsieur Eric Surget.
Librarians who have courteously answered queries by post and sent
xeroxes when required are Miss Jean Archibald, Assistant Librarian, Special
Collections, Edinburgh University Library; Monsieur Nicolas Petit, conser-
vateur a la Reserve, Sainte-Genevieve; Dr Xavicr Lavagne, conservaleur en chef,
Bibliotheque Mejanes, Aix; and MM. and Mesdames Elizabeth Chopin,
Directeur, Bibliotheque Municipale, Chaumont; Frangois dc Forbin, conser-
valeur des Fonds anciens, Avignon; Valerie Neveu, conservateur-adjoinl, Rouen; J.
Pons, conservaleur en chef, Albi; G. Tournouer, conservaleur en chef, Lille, and
Andree Wuertz, bibliothecaire-adjointe, Troyes.
Dr Roger Highfield kindly allowed me to examine a book in the library of
Merton College, Oxford, and Dr Miriam Griffin and Dr Elspeth Kennedy
generously answered queries.
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