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Manuscripts

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Manuscripts
the art or science of analyzing handwriting, especially that of manuscripts, with the purpose of establishing their authorship or authenticity. — bibliotist, n. — bibliotic, adj.
the study of early manuscripts. — codicologist, n. — codicologic, codicological, adj.
the critical study of original historical documents, as registers, treaties, and charters, especially from medieval periods.
a manuscript or other document written completely in the hand of the person above whose name it appears. — holograph, holographic, adj.
1. the art of decorating manuscripts with illustrations, as in the capitals, tracery, etc.
2. the decoration itself.
a parchment from which earlier writing has been partially or completely removed by scraping so that it may be used again. — palimpsestic, adj.
the study of papyrus manuscripts. — papyrologist, n. — papyrological, adj.
a room in a monastery for the writing or copying of manuscripts.
the art and practice of the scrivener or copyist. — scrivener, n.

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The worst of it was that I was actually typing my manuscripts at the same time I was trying to master that machine.
But he's written a wonderful story, telling how he happened to come across the ancient manuscripts in the tomb of some old Indian whose mummy he unearthed on a trip to Central America.
But from whatever cause, the tendency hardened into a ruling convention; thousands upon thousands of medieval manuscripts seem to declare that the world is a mirage of shadowy forms, or that it exists merely to body forth remote and highly surprising ideas.
 
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