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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology
1450 to 2000
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In the first dictionary of its kind a leading expert on English manuscripts defines some 1,500 terms, including types of manuscript, their physical features, writing implements, writing surfaces, scribes, scripts, postal markings, and seals, as well as those relating to literature, bibliography, editing, dating, conservation, cartography, commerce, heraldry, law, and military and naval matters. - ;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 rangein 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. - ;affords many pleasures to the curious... an intellectual inventory. - Andrew Zurcher, Times Literary Supplement
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Oxford University Press, UK; December 2007
478 pages; ISBN 9780191532740
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478 pages; ISBN 9780191532740
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Subject categories
- Academic > Library and Museum Studies > Museum Studies > Labels; Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Academic > Library and Museum Studies > Library Studies > Collections
- Antiques & Collectibles > Books
- History > Genealogy > Personal Names
- Literary Criticism > Books & Reading
- Social Science > Research
- Social Science > Sociology
- Reference > Dictionaries
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Library & Information Science
ISBNs
0191532746
9780191532740
9780199265442