The word "manuscript" derives from the Latin: manūscriptum (from manus, hand and scriptum from scribere, to write). The study of the writing (the "hand") in surviving … See more

Before the inventions of printing, in China by woodblock and in Europe by movable type in a printing press, all written documents had to … See more

Islamic manuscripts were produced in different ways depending on their use and time period. Parchment (vellum) was a common way to … See more

4,203 of Timbuktu's manuscripts were burned or stolen during the armed conflict in Mali between 2012 and 2013. 90% of these manuscripts were saved by the population organized around the NGO "Sauvegarde et valorisation des manuscrits pour la … See more

Most surviving pre-modern manuscripts use the codex format (as in a modern book), which had replaced the scroll by Late Antiquity. Parchment or vellum, as the best type of … See more

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive. For … See more

About 300,000 Latin, 55,000 Greek, 30,000 Armenian and 12,000 Georgian medieval manuscripts have survived. National Geographic estimates that 700,000 African … See more