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 Christ Pantocrator seated in a capital "U" in an illuminated manuscript from the Badische Landesbibliothek, Germany. |
A manuscript or handwrit is written information that has been manually created by one or more people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched (the original meaning of graffiti) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet (the way Romans made notes), or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay. The word manuscript derives from the Medieval Latin manuscriptum, a word first recorded in 1594 as a Latinisation of earlier Germanic words used in the Middle Ages: compare Middle High German hantschrift (c. 1450), Old Norse handrit (bef. 1300), Old English handgewrit (bef. 1150), all meaning "manuscript", literally, "handwritten".
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| British Library Glossary of manuscript terms, most... British Library Glossary of manuscript terms, mostly relating to Western medieval manuscripts prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/glossary.asp - Web |
| Centre for the History of the Book, University of ... Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/ - Web |
| Chinese Codicology Chinese Codicology chinesecodicology.blogspot.com - Web |
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| Manuscripts Department, University of North Caroli... Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www.lib.unc.edu/mss/ - Web |
| The Schøyen Collection – the world's largest priva... The Schøyen Collection – the world's largest private collection of manuscripts of all types, with many descriptions and images www.schoyencollection.com/contents.htm - Web |
| Newberry Library Manuscript Search Newberry Library Manuscript Search www.newberry.org/collections/mssarch.html - Web |
| Getty Exhibitions Getty Exhibitions www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/making/ - Web |
| Polish manuscripts in Sweden Polish manuscripts in Sweden eurofresh.se/manuskrypty/index_eng.html - Web |
