A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to … Se mer

Before the inventions of printing, in China by woodblock and in Europe by movable type in a printing press, all written documents had to be both produced and reproduced by hand. In … Se mer

4,203 of Timbuktu's manuscripts were burned or stolen during the armed conflict in Mali between 2012 and 2013. 90% of these manuscripts were … Se mer

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive. For example, a library's collection of hand-written letters … Se mer

The word "manuscript" derives from the Latin: manūscriptum (from manus, hand and scriptum from scribere, to write). The study of the writing (the "hand") in surviving manuscripts is termed palaeography (or paleography). The traditional … Se mer

Islamic manuscripts were produced in different ways depending on their use and time period. Parchment (vellum) was a common way to … Se mer

Most surviving pre-modern manuscripts use the codex format (as in a modern book), which had replaced the scroll by Late Antiquity Se mer