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  • A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology: 1450 to 2000

    A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology by Beal, Peter;

    1450 to 2000

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 20 December 2007

    • ISBN 9780199265442
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages480 pages
    • Size 240x162x23 mm
    • Weight 1023 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 96 black-and-white halftones
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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    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.

    affords many pleasures to the curious... an intellectual inventory.

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    Table of Contents:

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