Preface
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000
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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.
affords many pleasures to the curious... an intellectual inventory. Andrew Zurcher, Times Literary Supplement
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