manuscript

Definition:
1. A copy of a book, piece of music, etc. before it has been printed.
2. A very old book or document that was written by hand before printing was invented.
3. The form of a literary work submitted for publication.
4. Handwritten book or document.

Use 'manuscript' in a sentence:

• 1. Authors may write for months or years to finish a manuscript.
• 2. That bound volume of Lett's diary has now disappeared with the blue manuscript book.
• 3. However, if Mona Lisa was a famous novel, few people would bother to go to a museum to read the writer's actual manuscript rather than a printed reproduction.
• 4. In accordance with this kind of purism came an emphasis on studying composers' manuscript notations, a relatively new field of musicology that is flourishing even today.
• 5. The manuscript of my grandpa's novel disappeared in the war.
• 6. The manuscript was emended by the author.
• 7. The manuscript had already been sent off to the printers.
• 8. A manuscript is the text an author produces for publication.
• 9. Please make a fair copy of the manuscript.
• 10. It had been discovered that the book was a palimpsest, and beneath the surface writing of the manuscript laid, guess what?
• 11. A deluge of manuscripts began to arrive in the post.
• 12. I must return this manuscript to the author.
• 13. He had decided to publish the manuscript no matter what.
• 14. She tears a manuscript apart.
• 15. I had the oversight of their collection of books and manuscripts.
• 16. The manuscript had already been sent off to the printer.
• 17. The manuscript is no longer complete.
• 18. This is the oldest Hebrew manuscript in existence.
• 19. The manuscript is just one of the treasures in their possession.
• 20. The lines were interpolated into the manuscript at a later date.
• 21. This weekend, there's no more need to practice your accio manuscript spells, as the wait for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be over.
• 22. He made several deletions to the manuscript.
• 23. The editors have polished the manuscript.
• 24. It was a relief that his real name hadn't been appended to the manuscript.
• 25. Evidently, however, Hurston had prepared another version, a manuscript that was recently discovered and published after having been forgotten since 1929.
• 26. Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript before Jenks saw its potential.
• 27. The manuscript will go to press early next month.
• 28. At his death he left a great mass of undigested manuscripts.
• 29. How did Smith feel after reading the French manuscript?
• 30. Nevertheless, the presence of floral-patterned rugs in court scenes from two paintings in a 1440s Timurid manuscript suggests that floral-patterned rugs were already being used at that time.
• 31. To avoid further damage to the manuscript, the research team at the art museum has had to be extremely selective in the techniques they used to see the original writing.
• 32. More than half of the manuscript is completed.
• 33. An editor reads the manuscript.
• 34. Finally, the author sends the completed manuscript to a publisher.
• 35. This manuscript dates back to the 8th century.
• 36. He had seen a manuscript of the book.
• 37. The last part of the manuscript is lost.
• 38. The finished manuscript ran to the best part of fifty double-sided pages.
• 39. Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal's internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers.
• 40. Please return at your earliest convenience the manuscript [ draft; material] submitted to you for approval.
• 41. A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides.
• 42. Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
• 43. I read her poems in manuscript.
• 44. The manuscripts were written in the composer's own hand.
• 45. I am grateful to him for letting me read his early chapters in manuscript.
• 46. Her text is believed to be the oldest surviving manuscript by a female physician.
• 47. This manuscript is so good that it deserves publication.
• 48. These odd assertions were interpolated into the manuscript some time after 1400.
• 49. The original manuscript has been lost.