A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology
1450 to 2000
Peter Beal
480 pages | 96 black-and-white halftones | 234x156mm
9780199265442 | Hardback | 20 December 2007
Also available as: Paperback
* The first ever dictionary of manuscript terms
* Written by a leading expert on the study of manuscripts, for 25 years English Manuscript Expert at Sotheby's, London
* Lavishly illustrated and accessibly written
* A significant contribution to the advancing field of Manuscript Studies
This is the first Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology ever to be published. Dealing with the subject of documentation - which affects everyone's lives (from every-day letters, notes, and shopping lists to far-reaching legal instruments, if not autograph literary masterpieces) - Peter Beal defines, in a lively and accessible style, some 1,500 terms relating to manuscripts and their production and use in Britain from 1450 to the present day. The entries, which range in length from one line to nearly a hundred lines each, cover terms defining types of manuscript, their physical features and materials, writing implements, writing surfaces, scribes and other writing agents, scripts, postal markings, and seals, as well as subjects relating to literature, bibliography, archives, palaeography, the editing and printing of manuscripts, dating, conservation, and such fields as cartography, commerce, heraldry, law, and military and naval matters. The book includes 96 illustrations showing many of the features described.
Readership: Scholars and students of English Literature; Social History and Historical Research; Bibliography and History of the Book; Manuscript Studies; Media and Cultural Studies; Palaeography; Archives; as well as professional librarians, archivists, and book-dealers
Peter Beal, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London
"affords many pleasures to the curious... an intellectual inventory." - Andrew Zurcher, Times Literary Supplement
# 480 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press (Dec 25 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0199576122
# ISBN-13: 9780199576128
HARDCOVER ISBN # 480 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press (Dec 25 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0199576122
# ISBN-13: 9780199576128
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