Texts Level:  Acknowledgments

Definition:  Public recognition of contribution to knowledge about the manuscript.

Comment:  This field is the commitment on the part of Digital Scriptorium to build a dialogue between the scholars who are specialists in a given field and the librarians who are responsible for public dissemination of knowledge about the manuscript; it is also an encouragement to update the information contained in the database. The field exists at the first three levels (Manuscript, Part, Text) so that the acknowledgment may be more precisely geared to the information provided.

Example:

• Prof. David Ganz has kindly informed us of the author of this text.
• We thank Dr. A. Ian Doyle who informed us of the only other known copy of this treatise.

Properties:  Data type: text. Field size: 255 characters.

Required?:  No.