Manuscript : MSS
Manuscript (Latin manu scriptus written by hand) is any work that is prepared by writing it down by hand in contrast to being printed or reproduced in any other way. Before the discovery of print, people copied documents by hand.A manuscript is usually preserved in form of a book, codex in Latin, but other forms of manuscript exist, such as a roll. Historically manuscripts are have usually been written on either parchment, papyrus or paper. In the classical period, words were written without spaces between them (scriptio continua), which makes them especially hard for the untrained to read.
In Library and Information Science, a manuscript can refer to any hand-written item in the collections of a library or archive[?], e.g. archived letters or diary from a person.
In film and theatre, a manuscript, or script for short, is an author's or dramatist's text being used by a publisher for making a book (after editing[?]) or by a theater company[?] or film crew for making a performance.
The word manuscript is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS.
occupants. Household utensils lay as they were left, rust and dirt
downwards on the table, while many others were scattered about both
hung in shreds about the windows; a woman's cloak, of an antiquated
found a tumbled heap of yellow letters. They were of various dates,
intended to receive them, lay a large envelope, inscribed with an
glow of the burning juniper twigs, and, as we lay aside the last of
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Extract from first letter:
"I cannot tell you, my dear Joyce, what a haven of peace this place
recovered already, and am growing stronger every day; and, joy of
think, for its holiday. In this silence and solitude my thoughts
by magic. We are perched upon a tiny plateau halfway up the
piercing the sky; while on the other, two thousand feet below us, the
consists of two rooms--or, rather, it is two cabins connected by a
our sleeping apartment. We have no servant, but do everything for
human habitation is eight miles away, across the mountain, and not a
during the day, and make up for it by working at night after she has
that she loves to have me all to herself. (Here you will smile
when they have been married six years instead of six months.') At
the spring, and then, my dear fellow, you must try and come over, and
the gods.' I have felt a new man.html">man since I arrived here. Instead of
This work will make my name."
(a history apparently) that the man was writing:
"MY DEAR JOYCE,--I have written you two letters--this will make the
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