A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology - Peter Beal

A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology

1450 to 2000

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
478 Seiten
2009
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-957612-8 (ISBN)
65,95 inkl. MwSt
A leading expert on English manuscripts defines some 1,500 terms. Includes types of manuscript, their physical features, writing implements, writing surfaces, scribes, scripts, postal markings, seals, and terms 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 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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.11.2009
Zusatzinfo 96 black-and-white halftones
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 813 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften Paläografie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10 0-19-957612-2 / 0199576122
ISBN-13 978-0-19-957612-8 / 9780199576128
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