Wim Van Mierlo<p>Sad to hear that Peter Beal, specialist on early modern manuscripts, has died.</p><p>I met Peter in the mid-2000s when the Institute of English studies was preparing for the CELM project bid.</p><p>Peter Beal obituary: palaeographer who catalogued Churchill’s papers</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/peter-beal-dv99zgdxp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/art</span><span class="invisible">icle/peter-beal-dv99zgdxp</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/obituary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>obituary</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/manuscriptstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>manuscriptstudies</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/manuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>manuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/earlymodernliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>earlymodernliterature</span></a></p>