A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology: 1450 to 2000 (repost)
A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology: 1450 to 2000 by Peter Beal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 25, 2008) | 400 pages | ISBN: 0199265445 | PDF | 11.3 MB
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 25, 2008) | 400 pages | ISBN: 0199265445 | PDF | 11.3 MB
This dictionary was originally inspired by John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors (first published in 1952). What he had done for books it seemed reasonable to do for manuscripts. Not, however, that the audience would be the same, for it is not necessarily collectors who handle manuscripts most. Almost everyone has been using, writing, annotating, or signing documents of one kind or another, whether letters, shopping lists, or tax forms, for most of their lives. Those with special interests in the field, who produce or handle them almost every day, range from writers and amateur genealogists to academics, archivists, historians, lawyers, postal workers, accountants, and, in effect, a host of others engaged in professions where documentation is their principal focus of attention. In the absence of a clear guide to such matters, it therefore seemed time tomake a serious attempt to establish the language and vocabulary involved in the field of manuscripts and related subjects…