1
: a written or typewritten composition or document as distinguished from a printed copy
also
: a document submitted for publication
The library owns the author's original manuscript.
2
: writing as opposed to print
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Noun
The library owns the author's original manuscript.
a copy of the composer's manuscript
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
The manuscript evidence for it far exceeds many other events whose authenticity is never questioned.
—Rev. Scott Grorud, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2024
Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
This letter descended to Charles Austen and thence to his granddaughters, who, hard up, sold it in the 1920s, part of a larger cache of relics and manuscripts.
—Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Hiding in plain sight Former Cambridge archivist Sian Collins first spotted the manuscript fragment in 2019 while recataloging estate records from Huntingfield Manor, owned by the Vanneck family of Heveningham, in Suffolk, England.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
The manuscript evidence for it far exceeds many other events whose authenticity is never questioned.
—Rev. Scott Grorud, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2024
Noun
Authorities did not say from which university the manuscripts were stolen.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
This letter descended to Charles Austen and thence to his granddaughters, who, hard up, sold it in the 1920s, part of a larger cache of relics and manuscripts.
—Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Manuscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manuscript. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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