A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology: 1450 to 2000

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Peter Beal (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London)

A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology

1450 to 2000

Peter Beal (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London)

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Oxford University Press
04 January 2008

Palaeography (history of writing); Reference works; Library & information sciences; Acquisitions & collection development; Research methods: general; Social & cultural history; Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter

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.

By: Peter Beal (Senior Research Fellow Institute of English Studies University of London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199265442
ISBN 10: 0199265445
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 04 January 2008
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgements Illustrations A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 Select Bibliography

Dr Peter Beal, FBA, was for 25 years English Manuscript Expert (for nine of them a Director) at Sotheby's, London. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1993; was J.P.R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography at Oxford, 1995-96; and since 2002 has been Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, where he is currently building an AHRC-funded database Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 (CELM). His major publications in the field of early modern manuscripts include Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450-1700 (4 volumes, 1980-93) and In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (OUP, 1998). He is also co-founder and co-editor of the near-annual series of volumes English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 (1989- ), now published by the British Library.

Reviews for A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology: 1450 to 2000

affords many pleasures to the curious... an intellectual inventory. Andrew Zurcher, Times Literary Supplement This book will be indispensable to anyone - librarian, archivist, book dealer, postgraduate student, or academic - who has ever had occasion to describe an early modern document or refer to a catlaogue of manuscripts. Arnold Hunt, The Library 7.10.2 Peter Beal's expertise and vast knowledge provide a most useful selection of terms Carlo M. Bajetta, Notes and Queries