We must be grateful to the editors, Coulson and Babcock, for their courage in organising this handbook. This impressive work will be of great value, both as an indispensable handbook of Latin palaeography and as a necessary starting point for research in palaeography, codicology and the cultural history of the Latin Middle Ages.
Robert G. Babcock teaches Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium, Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Zentraldirektion of Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Belgian Institute for Advanced Studies. His publications focus on Latin manuscripts, Medieval Latin, and the transmission of Classical, Patristic, and Medieval Latin literature.
Frank T. Coulson is Distinguished Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at the Ohio State University. He has published widely on the reception of Ovid in the Medieval Ages and is currently finishing a volume for the Catalogus translationum et commentariorum on Ovid's Metamorphoses. He also serves as the Director of Palaeography for the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies.