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Article: A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000. Peter Beal. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]55.00. xix + 457 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-926544-2. This monumental reference work is 'a serious attempt to establish the language and vocabulary involved in the field of manuscripts and related subjects'. There are over 1,500 entries, with suitable cross-references. Mr Beal is concerned with what might be called 'modern' MSS, i.e. he begins with 1450. The majority of entries are for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He includes typewritten texts but excludes the terms which arrived with ...
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