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manuscripts


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Preferred Term

manuscripts

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Handwritten documents, particularly books and other documents created before the invention of the printing press. May also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Variations

manuscript

handschrift

manuscrits

manuscrit

Manuskript

Handschrift

manoscritto

manuscrito

handskrift

manuskript

Narrower Terms

illuminated manuscripts

codices

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