n. (sing. abbr. ms, pl. abbr. mss)a handwritten documentan unpublished documentAPPM2 1989, 1.0AAny text in handwriting or typescript (including printed forms completed by hand or typewriter) which may or may not be part of a collection of such texts. Examples of manuscripts are letters, diaries, ledgers, minutes, speeches, marked or corrected galley or page proofs, manuscript books, and legal papers.an author’s draft of a book, article, or other work submitted for publication
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Manuscript1 is principally text or musical notation on paper, but may be supplemented by drawings. Typewritten documents are generally classified as manuscripts but are more accurately described as typescripts.
