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Origin:
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin manūscrīptus written by hand, equivalent to Latin manū by hand (ablative of manus) + scrīptus written; see script

Related forms

man·u·script·al, adjective

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manuscript (ˈmænjʊˌskrɪpt)

—n
1.	a book or other document written by hand
2.	the original handwritten or typed version of a book, article, etc, as submitted by an author for publication
3.	a. handwriting, as opposed to printing
	b. (as modifier): a manuscript document

[C16: from Medieval Latin manūscriptus, from Latin manus hand + scribere to write]

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manuscript

1597, from M.L. manuscriptum, from L. manu scriptus "written by hand," from manu, abl. of manus "hand" (see manual) + scriptus, pp. of scribere "to write" (see script). Abbreviation is MS, plural MSS.

Example sentences

It's lighter than a regular book, and easier to turn the pages than with a

manuscript.

Shortly before the sale, the manuscript was put on display.

There is no final text, only an unfinished manuscript corpus.

We have read your manuscript with boundless delight.

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"... no book ... ever competed with the Bible. The story of Ruth was better than Ramona, and the poetry of Job was better than Longfellow. I still have my first big Bible, carefully underlined through with red and black ink, and interleafed [sic] with painfully written manuscript pages.... Margery and I earned our five cents a week for church and a penny for Sunday school by learning three verses of the Bible a day and six on Sunday. We learned dozens and dozens of chapters. I supposed "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha" were better poetry, but I didn't like them so well."

-Ruth Benedict