Acknowledgments

We are immensely grateful to the members of the philanthropic community who made CORSAIR possible. First and foremost, we thank the Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, whose initial major investment in the project brought CORSAIR to life and whose second substantial grant made it widely accessible on the Internet.

Generous matching funds toward the Mellon challenge grant were provided by The Achelis Foundation, the Arcana Foundation, The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the Booth Ferris Foundation, The Florence Gould Foundation, and The Alice Tully Foundation. Additional support was provided by Fay and Geoffrey Elliott, IBM Corporation, Robert Montgomery, and The New York Times Company Foundation.

Major underwriting from The Homeland Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust is supporting the creation of digital images and detailed descriptions of all of the significant illuminations in the collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. We are indebted to them for helping us provide Internet access to one of the world’s great manuscript collections.