Acnowledgements
We would like to thank research assistants who worked on this project in the 1990s and whose contributions were invaluable to getting this project started.
In 1994-5, Thierry Petersen, then an undergraduate at the University of Maine, assisted by scanning the Index of Middle English Verse, proofreading and correcting the scanned text so that it could form the basis for a word processing document for compiling the iMEV.
In 1997-8, Isaac Kimball, also then an undergraduate at the University of Maine, assisted by conducting extensive bibliographical research in the National Union Catalogue and on-line catalogues to complete many of the brief and often inaccurate bibliographic references from the original Index and its Supplement.
In 1995-7, Dr. Malcolm Burson assisted by collecting extensive further bibliographic information, bringing the bibliography up to date, and identifying new pieces of Middle English verse to add to the data base.
We would also like to thank Prof. Mary Hamel of Mount St Mary’s College for collecting data for the iMEV from manuscripts in the Lambeth Palace Library.