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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
manuscript
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
▪ The ancient manuscript which sparks it all off is ingeniously devised to yield two possible meanings, one mystic, one mundane.
▪ The result of this sad story is that we have 4, 000 ancient Samaritan manuscripts all over the world.
▪ Other ancient manuscripts give the number as seventy-two which shows that even then there was some confusion about statistics!
▪ We went on a tour of the ancient manuscripts, the antique mazes.
▪ Many feature museums displaying such artifacts as ancient icons and manuscripts, stylized crosses and other ritual objects.
early
▪ The historical sections of the exhibition include early charters, manuscripts, views of London before and after the Great Fire.
illuminated
▪ The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
▪ An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
▪ She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
▪ Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
▪ The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
▪ His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
medieval
▪ Many medieval manuscripts have decorated borders filled with comic animals and birds and people.
▪ It comprises an extensive accumulation of medieval manuscripts, and a number of antiquarian collections.
▪ It was perfect, like the letter-high illuminations in a medieval manuscript.
▪ Similar techniques have been used on the fire-damaged medieval manuscripts of our Cotton collection.
old
▪ Any College treasures, any old manuscripts for example?
▪ He found old manuscripts and adapted or arranged them for groups performing ancient and baroque music.
▪ Nearly a hundred years ago there emerged from an obscure Suffolk parish an eight hundred year old manuscript book of the Gospels.
▪ Ward kept old manuscripts down there.
■ NOUN
copy
▪ The assignments will include typing of varying difficulty from printed and manuscript copy.
■ VERB
find
▪ Here we find that the manuscripts themselves may vary in the figures they give.
▪ He found old manuscripts and adapted or arranged them for groups performing ancient and baroque music.
include
▪ The collection, which included rare artefacts and manuscripts, was encased in the bubbles whilst the bookcases were treated for woodworm.
▪ Types of material treated include books, manuscripts, maps, globes, photographs and ephemera material.
▪ This epilogue is included in still fewer manuscripts than the shorter prologue.
▪ The historical sections of the exhibition include early charters, manuscripts, views of London before and after the Great Fire.
read
▪ Holmes is alone, leaning back in his chair, reading a manuscript piled on his desk.
▪ Having read both manuscripts carefully I had no doubts at all that both men were speaking the truth.
▪ It was therefore an important moment when Tolkien gave Lewis the Lay of Leithian to read in manuscript.
send
▪ Submission Format: Send the complete manuscript.
▪ This is how it should be: a fast publication of results after a conference or after sending in a manuscript.
▪ And it also it makes more fun sending in a manuscript.
▪ It must be rare for a publishing house to be sent a manuscript twice after an interval of 62 years.
survive
▪ The E text, despite surviving in a manuscript eighty years younger than that of C, may sometimes preserve better readings.
▪ As well as church music many of the earliest troubadour lyrics, with their accompanying melodies, survive in manuscripts from St Martial's.
write
▪ In Britain, copyright exists as soon as a song is recorded on to tape or written on manuscript.
▪ John Ferrar's Life of Nicholas was not published at the time when it was written and the manuscript disappeared until 1790.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
illuminated manuscript/book
▪ An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
▪ Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
▪ His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
▪ It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
▪ She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
▪ The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
▪ The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All Kingston's original manuscripts were lost in the fire.
▪ ancient manuscripts
▪ The finished manuscript was sent to the publisher on 3 January.
▪ We were shown some of the ancient manuscripts and rare books that are kept in the British Library.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among the first to see the manuscript were two of his colleagues, journalist Dontun Adebayo and editor Steve Pope.
▪ Back went the manuscripts to other editors.
▪ Dear Professor Doctor: Your manuscript is safe.
▪ He gathered up the music manuscript into a tidy pile and put his pencil slant-wise across the top.
▪ Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck, the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.
▪ The books were in manuscript and the text was interspersed with lively pen-and-ink sketches.
▪ This did not deter him, as, between 1980 and 1984, he completed over 400 pages of manuscript.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manuscript

Manuscript \Man"u*script\, a. [L. manu scriptus. See Manual, and Scribe.] Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.

Manuscript

Manuscript \Man"u*script\, n. [LL. manuscriptum, lit., something written with the hand. See Manuscript, a.]

  1. An original literary or musical composition written by the author, formerly with the hand, now usually by typewriter or word processor. It is contrasted with a printed copy.

  2. Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript.
    --Craik.

    Note: The word is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manuscript

"document or book written by hand," 1590s (adj.), c.1600 (n.), from Medieval Latin manuscriptum "document written by hand," from Latin manu scriptus "written by hand," from manu, ablative of manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)) + scriptus (neuter scriptum), past participle of scribere "to write" (see script (n.)). Abbreviation is MS, plural MSS.

Wiktionary
manuscript

a. handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced. n. A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.

WordNet
manuscript
  1. n. the form of a literary work submitted for publication [syn: ms]

  2. handwritten book or document [syn: holograph]

Wikipedia
Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) is any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some automated way. More recently it is understood to be an author's written, typed, or word-processed copy of a work, as distinguished from the print of the same. Before the arrival of printing, all documents and books were manuscripts. Manuscripts are not defined by their contents, which may combine writing with mathematical calculations, maps, explanatory figures or illustrations. Manuscripts may be in book form, scrolls or in codex format. Illuminated manuscripts are enriched with pictures, border decorations, elaborately embossed initial letters or full-page illustrations.

Manuscript (publishing)

Manuscript is a broad concept in publishing, that can about one or both:

  • the formatting of a short story manuscript,
  • an accepted manuscript (by its merit not its format), not yet in a final format (but reviewed), published with non-final-format in ahead, as preprint.

A manuscript is the work that an author submits to a publisher, editor, or producer for publication. Even with the advent of desktop publishing, making it possible for anyone to prepare text that appears professionally typeset, many publishers still require authors to submit manuscripts within their respective guidelines.

Manuscript (disambiguation)

A manuscript is an original copy of a text.

Manuscript may also refer to:

  • Manuscript (publishing)
  • Manuscript, block letters
  • "The Manuscript" TV episode of Tales of Wells Fargo 1958
  • "The Manuscript" TV episode of The Mysterious Cities of Gold
  • The Manuscript, novel by Eva Zeller
  • The Manuscript (EP), My Dying Bride
  • "Manuscript", song by Al Stewart from Zero She Flies 1970

Usage examples of "manuscript".

Lastly, I wish to express my profoundest gratitude to Ruth Aley, who first saw the book in the manuscript.

Gantrix, has asked me to come to Section B of your Library and, if you will cooperate, sequester all manuscripts still extant dealing with the Anarch Peak.

After reading a certain amount of manuscript verse one is disposed to anathematize the inventor of homophonous syllabification.

We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia where, if anywhere upon this earth, wisdom is to be found, and we anticipate that our sojourn there will be a long one.

GENTLEMEN:--On the 15th day of this month, as I remember, a printed paper manuscript, with a few manuscript interlineations, called a protest, with your names appended thereto, and accompanied by another printed paper, purporting to be a proclamation by Andrew Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee, and also a manuscript paper, purporting to be extracts from the Code of Tennessee, were laid before me.

Lincoln Child, truly the better half of our belletristic partnership, for his excellent and most insightful criticism of the manuscript.

Jim Baen, John Brekke, and to my agents, George Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer, for their comments and suggestions on the manuscript.

I owe an immense debt to Richard Burian, whose careful and sophisticated review of the manuscript, especially of Chapter IV, resulted in a critical improvement from an earlier version.

Why would anybody accuse six different writers of plagiarizing the same manuscript and then try to extort money from each one?

The visit of an unknown lady, and at such a late hour, had not been kept secret from her: her imagination at once pictured a yawning abyss on the edge of which I was standing, and she was continually sighing and moaning and murmuring French sentences, quoted from a little manuscript book entitled Extraits de Lecture.

The young Jesuit learned how the illustrious Count de Maistre had concerned himself about the future greatness of the Society, how a free-thinking Russian had stolen a secret manuscript and a magic knife from him.

David Morrison, Ken Vineberg, Raphael Kasper, Nicholas Boles, Steven Carlip, Arthur Greenspoon, David Mermin, Michael Popowits, and Shani Offen read the manuscript closely and offered detailed reactions and suggestions that greatly enhanced the presentation.

Yet, even with our advances in technology and methodology, even with the incomparably greater manuscript resources at our disposal, our Greek texts of today bear an uncanny resemblance to the Greek text of Westcott and Hort.

Note, however, two articles of the Miscellanea, one on the manuscript of this biography which is found in the library at Versailles, t.

The wall facing was decorated with illuminated manuscripts and testimonials from a score of organizations of former victims of the SS.