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.
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