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Definition: Manuscript |
ManuscriptNoun1. The form of a literary work submitted for publication. 2. Handwritten book or document. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manuscript" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of manuscript in an unfinished state, forebodes disappointment. If finished and clearly written, great hopes will be realized. If you are at work on manuscript, you will have many fears for some cherished hope, but if you keep the blurs out of your work you will succeed in your undertakings. If it is rejected by the publishers, you will be hopeless for a time, but eventually your most sanguine desires will become a reality. If you lose it, you will be subjected to disappointment. If you see it burn, some work of your own will bring you profit and much elevation. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Work written or dictated and corrected by the author prior to the printing process. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Document written or copied by hand. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of (mainly) secondary source documents narrating the history of the Anglo-Saxons and their settlement in Britain. Much of the information in these documents consists of rumors of events that happened elsewhere and so may be unreliable. However for some periods and places, the Chronicle is the only substantial surviving source of information. The manuscripts were produced in different places, and each manuscript represents the biases of its scribes.The Chronicles (there are more than one) were developed primarily as a means of remembering and recording the date. There was a widespread contemporary belief that the world would end at the millennium (1000 A.D.), so fixing your place relative to the end of the world was important. Annals were mainly kept at monasteries and were intensely local documents. Items important to the locals, such as the fertility of the harvest or the paucity of bees, would be eagerly recorded, wheras distant political events were largely ignored. A combination of the individual annals allows us to develop an overall picture, a document that was the first continuous history written by Europeans in their own language. Thus the Chronicles are an important development in historiography as well as a useful historical documents in their own right.
There are seven surviving manuscripts, of which six are written entirely in Old English, while the seventh is a mixture of Old English and Latin. The oldest (Corp. Chris. MS 173) is known as the Parker Chronicle, after Matthew Parker who once owned it, or the Winchester Chronicle.
Some think that the chronicles were originally commissioned by King Alfred, but there is no substantive evidence for this. Many of the surviving manuscripts that are together known as The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles are concerned with him, but others marginalise him, depending on the preference of the original scribe. The translated texts (together with explanatory materials) are available in books and on the Internet, so scholars at all levels can now consult them directly.
See Anglo-Saxon kingdom genealogy for a comparison of the genealogies of the Canterbury and Winchester manuscripts with the one given by Snorri Sturluson in his Edda.
Reference
- Peter Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 352-355
External links
- Transcribed original text
- Translation to English
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way.
Manuscripts in history
Before the invention of the printing press, all written documents had to be both produced and reproduced by hand. Historically, manuscripts were produced in form of scrolls or books (codex in Latin). Manuscripts were produced on vellum and other parchments, on papyrus, and on paper.
In the West from the classical period through the early centuries of the Christian era, manuscripts were written without spaces between the words (scriptio continua), which makes them especially hard for the untrained to read. Extant copies of these early manuscripts, usually written in Greek or Latin and usually dating from the 300s to 700s, C.E, are classified according to their use of either all upper case or all lower case letters. Manuscripts using all upper case letters are called uncials, those using all lower case are called cursives.
Manuscripts today
According to Library and Information Science, a manuscript is any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.
In other contexts, however, the use of the term "manuscript" no longer necessarily means something that is hand-written.
In book and magazine publishing, a manuscript is an original copy of a work written by an author. In film and theatre, a manuscript, or script for short, is an author's or dramatist's text, used by a theater company or film crew during the production of the work's performance or filming.
In insurance, a manuscript policy is one that is negotiated between the insurer and the policyholder, as opposed to an off-the-shelf form supplied by the insurer.
The word manuscript is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS.
See also
- Scriptorium
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Manuscript."
Synonyms: ManuscriptSynonyms: holograph (n), ms (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Writing | Writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae; these presents. |
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Screenplays | Listen, while you're grabbing the Rambaldi manuscript, if you happen to see a sandwich (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Lost Manuscript (1974) | |
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 | A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A group of professional people sit around an office conference table discussing a manuscript. See artwork: OCC-04. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Woman draftsman preparing chart manuscript. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Leybourn's plane table. In: "Historical Account of the Plane Table" by A. M. Harrison, 1875. This is a handwritten unpublished manuscript. Library Call Number TA571 .H37 1875. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Ozanam's cartoon plane table. In: "Historical Account of the Plane Table" by A. M. Harrison, 1875. This is a handwritten unpublished manuscript. Library Call Number TA571 .H37 1875. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | The Canterbury Psalter, an illuminated manuscript dating from the mid-twelfth century; with illustration thought to be of Halley's Comet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Evolution of the book, east corridor. Manuscript book / J.W. Alexander, artist. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Manuscript [book]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Manuscript book, John W. Alexander, N.A., Library of Congress, Washington, [D.C.]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portion of a Chinese or Japanese manuscript on a screen that belonged to Arnold Genthe. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Samuel Johnson | Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The old man was still conning the manuscript. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She fled, went back to the house and shut herself up in her room to read over the manuscript again, to learn it by heart, and to muse |
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Economic History | San Marino | Constitution: October 8, 1600; electoral law of 1926 and manuscript of rights (1974) serve some of the functions of a Constitution. (references) |
Ireland | The arts of manuscript illumination, metalworking, and sculpture flourished and produced such treasures as the Book of Kells, ornate jewelry, and the many carved stone crosses that dot the island. (references) | |
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| "Manuscript" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.63% of the time. "Manuscript" is used about 803 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.63% | 800 | 8,685 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 803 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "manuscript": illuminated manuscript ♦ original manuscript ♦ sinaitic manuscript ♦ typewritten manuscript. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "manuscript": lute-manuscript. | |
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| Language | Translations for "manuscript"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në dorëshkrim, dorëshkrim (copy, paw, script). (various references) | |
Arabic | مطبوع على الآلة الكاتبة (typewritten), مخطوطة كتابية, مخطوط باليد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръкописен, ръкопис (copy, handwriting, script, scripture). (various references) | |
Chinese | 草 (careless, draft, grass, hasty, rough, straw), 稿 (draft, stalk of grain), 原稿, 手稿 (script). (various references) | |
Czech | rukopis (copy, hand, handwriting, script). (various references) | |
Danish | manuskript (copy, script), m.s.. (various references) | |
Dutch | manuscript (copy), handschrift (script, writing). (various references) | |
Esperanto | manuskripto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | handrit. (various references) | |
Farsi | نوشته (Deposition, Epigraph, Inscription, Opus, Paperwork, Record, Scrip, Writ), نسخه خطی , کتاب خطی , دستخط (Hand, Handwriting, Longhand, Script). (various references) | |
Finnish | käsikirjoitus (script). (various references) | |
French | manuscrit (typewritten manuscript). (various references) | |
Frisian | manuskript. (various references) | |
German | Manuskript (lecture notes, matter, script, scripture), Handschrift (hand, hand writing, handwriting, script, trademark, writing), Druckvorlage (camera-ready copy, lithogrph, master, setting copy). (various references) | |
Greek | χειρόγραφο (longhand, script). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kézirat (handwriting, matter, script). (various references) | |
Indonesian | naskah (script). (various references) | |
Italian | manoscritto (handwritten, ms.). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 草稿 (draft, notes), 原稿 (copy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マニュスクリプト , そう"う (achievement, armored, bustle, conduct, deportment, document transmission, draft, efficacy, fruition, hatch, hatchway, hurry, meanwhile, notes, plain food, rousing, running a wheeled vehicle, simple living, success, traveling), しゃほ" (codex, written copy), "うほ" (annotated textbook), "う (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), '""う (black and yellow silk, copy, current, heaven and earth, in operation, natural decrease, ore, present, speech and behaviour, the Mongol Invasion). (various references) | |
Korean | 원 . (various references) | |
Manx | laue-screeuyn (MS, script), l.s. (ms.). (various references) | |
Papiamen | manuskripto. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anuscriptmay.(various references) | |
Polish | manuskript, rękopis. (various references) | |
Portuguese | manuscrito (autograph, autographic, chirographic, script). (various references) | |
Romanian | manuscris (script). (various references) | |
Russian | рукопись (copy, matter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | manuskriptni, manuskript, rukopis (handwriting, script), pisan rukom. (various references) | |
Spanish | manuscrito (scripture). (various references) | |
Swedish | manuskript (copy, script). (various references) | |
Turkish | el yazması metin, el yazması (cursive), el yazısı (character, cursive, fist, handwriting, longhand, running hand, script, writing). (various references) | |
Turkmen | golяazma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рукописний (cursive, written), рукопис (copy, handwriting, holography, script, scripture). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | viết tay, bản viết tay, bản thảo. (various references) | |
Welsh | ysgriflyfr (codex), llawysgrif. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | manu scriptus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manuscript": manuscripts. (additional references) | |
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"Manuscript" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: manuscrit, manuskript, menuscript, nanoskirt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manuscript" (pronounced ma"nyuskri'pt) |
| 6 | -s k r i' p t | conscript, Postscript, transcript. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: cantrips, crampits, craniums, cumarins, curtains, natriums, naturism, panicums, puritans, tsunamic. | |
-3 letters: antrums, armpits, atriums, cantrip, catnips, crampit, cranium, crinums, cumarin, curtain, impacts, imparts, incrust, manitus, mantric, martins, mispart, narcism, narcist, natrium, nutrias, panicum, pitmans, puranic, puritan, sanctum, spirant, tsunami, turnips, unsmart, unstrap, untrims, upstair, uranism. | |
-4 letters: acinus, actins, amicus, animus, antics, antrum, anuric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: intercampus, manuscripts, pancratiums. | |
+3 letters: compurgations, paramountcies, pococurantism, protactiniums, superromantic, unimportances. | |
+4 letters: micropulsation, pococurantisms, recomputations. | |
+5 letters: mercaptopurines, micropulsations, pronunciamentos. | |
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