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Editorial In the autumn of 1999 the Managing Editors of Quærendo , and subsequently its Publishers, were approached about the possibilities of bringing out a special issue, by way of a Festschrift, in honour of Dr J.P. (Peter) Gumbert, at the time due to retire in about a year as Professor of Western Palaeography & Codicology at Leiden University. The request was made by Dr Jos Biemans, Curator of Manuscripts at Amsterdam University Library, not only on his own behalf but also on that of his colleagues Prof. Jos Hermans (Groningen) and Dr Eef Overgaauw (Berlin) – all three of them in one way or another pupils, friends or colleagues of Gumbert’s. Appreciating the excellent reputation Gumbert has earned himself in his chosen eld of studies, grateful for the articles and reviews he has contributed over the years to our periodical and also realizing that with his departure the last full- time chair of Palaeography & Codicology in the Low Countries would be left vacant – in itself a truly deplorable, if not shameful state of a V airs – it did not take us long to welcome the idea and to agree upon a plan to
Quaerendo – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2003
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