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Definition of Manuscripts
1. manuscript [n] - See also: manuscript
Medical Definition of Manuscripts
1. Compositions written by hand, as one written before the invention or adoption of printing. A manuscript may also refer to a handwritten copy of an ancient author. A manuscript may be handwritten or typewritten as distinguished from a printed copy, especially the copy of a writer's work from which printed copies are made. (webster, 3d ed) (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manuscripts
Literary usage of Manuscripts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1907)
"In the celebrated history of the Council of Trent by Pallavicino at almost every
page manuscripts existing in private libraries are cited, and in Ranke's ..."
2. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo, Giovanni Battista Baldelli Boni, Hugh Murray, Société de géographie (France) (1852)
"Authenticity of the Work—manuscripts ana. ... Edition—manuscripts employed—That
published by the French Geographical Society—Its great Value—The Narrative ..."
3. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"I BY JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE The extant manuscripts of Aristophanes number about two
... But it would be a mistake on this account to reject all manuscripts ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This is housed in an ancient conventual building adapted to the purposes of a
library, and contains many bibliographic treasures, among them manuscripts of ..."
5. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1899)
"OTHER INFERIOR manuscripts. Amongst the signs employed by ... Amongst worthless
manuscripts I should place the following. BERNENSIS 517 I inspected in the ..."
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