A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology: 1450-2000

by Peter Beal

This is the first Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology ever to be published. Dealing with the subject of documentation - which affects everyone's lives ( 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199576122
• ISBN13: 9780199576128
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"