サザビーで長年写本を担当した専門家による初の用語辞典。New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. In the first dictionary of its kind the world's leading expert on English manuscripts defines some 1,500 terms, including types of manuscript, their physical features, writing implements, writing surfaces, scribes, scripts, postal markings, and seals, as well as those relating to literature, bibliography, editing, dating, conservation, cartography, commerce, heraldry, law, and military and naval matters.