Dr Peter Beal, FBA, FSA

Career: research ed Bowker Publishing and Mansell Publishing Ltd 1974-79; Sotheby's London: English manuscript expert 1980-2005, dir in Dept of Printed Books and Manuscripts 1996-2005 (dep dir 1990-96); J P R Lyell reader in bibliography Univ of Oxford 1995-96, visiting prof English Dept Univ of Reading 2000-02, sr research fell Inst of English Studies Univ of London 2002-, building on-line Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 (CELM) 2005-; memb Editorial Bd: English Literary Renaissance 2001-, Renaissance English Text Soc 2002-; advsr and conslt to various presses and projects incl OUP, Scolar Press, CUP and the Oxford DNB; numerous invited lectures in the UK, USA and Canada; memb: Cncl Br Acad 2000-01, Mgmnt Ctee Centre for Editing Lives and Letters QMC London 2001-07; FBA 1993, FSA 2007

Books and Publications: incl: Index of English Literary Manuscripts (Vol I Parts 1 and 2, 1980, Vol II Part 1 1987, Vol II Part 2 1993), English Verse Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century (gen ed , 5 vols 1990), In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (1998), A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (2008); co-fndr and co-ed English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 (Vol 1 1989, Vol 2 1990, Vol 3 1992, Vol 4 1993, Vol 5 1995, Vol 6 1997, Vol 7 1998, Vol 8 2000, Vol 9 2000, Vol 10 2002, Vol 11 2002, Vol 12 2005, Vol 13 2007, Vol 14 2008), Queen Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing (co-ed, 2007); author of numerous articles in learned jls