The editors would like to thank the CRC 933 "Material Text Cultures", financed by the German Research Foundation / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, for supporting this volume. The generous financial assistance of the CRC 933 enabled two collaborators, Katja Schulz and Christine Neufeld, to spend several months at Heidelberg University as Mercator Fellows in 2015 and 2016. Their work was indispensable for this book project, which had to break new ground in many respects. We would also like to thank Eastern Michigan University for Christine Neufeld's 2018 Summer Research Fellowship supporting her work on this project. Furthermore we express our deepest gratitude to Michael R. Ott for his unstinting generosity, not just as a contributor, but as an important collaborator in this endeavour. We also gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Maria Krümpelmann, Tamara Ludwig and Björn Thesing, who have helped to prepare the manuscript for publication and have entered numerous references into our database. We thank the Editorial Board of the CRC 933 for including the volume in the MTK series and Nicolai Schmitt for diligently typesetting the manuscript.