manuscriptadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈmanjᵿskrɪpt/, U.S.

/ˈmænjəˌskrɪp(t)/

Forms: 1500s manvscript, 1600s manescript, 1600s maniescript, 1600s maniscript, 1600s– manuscript.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin manuscriptus, manuscriptum, manū scriptus.

Etymology: As adjective < post-classical Latin manuscriptus handwritten (as one word 1514 in a British source, 1526 in Erasmus) < classical Latin manū scrīptus (also scrīptus manū ) < manū , ablative singular of manus hand (see manus n.¹) + scrīptus , past participle of scrībere to write (see scribe n.¹). As noun < post-classical Latin manuscriptum manuscript, written document, charter (a922), use as noun of neuter of manū scriptus. Compare Middle French, French manuscrit (1594 as adjective and noun), Italian manoscritto (a1601 as adjective, a1676 as noun), Catalan manuscrit (1638 as adjective), Spanish manuscrito (probably early 17th cent. as adjective, 1650 as noun), Portuguese manuscrito (late 16th cent. as adjective, late 18th cent. as noun). Compare chirograph n., and earlier post-classical Latin manuscriptio signature (see manuscription n.). Compare also MS n.¹The post-classical Latin noun manuscriptum was used occasionally of documents which derived evidential value from being written by a particular person (e.g. a confession, a note of hand, a charter) until the late 15th cent., when the invention of printing gave it and the associated nouns manuscripta (a1475) and manuscriptus (a1567) wider currency, especially in humanistic use.

A. adj.

Of a book, document, etc.: written by hand, not printed.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective]

manuscript1597

chirographic1885

hand-lettered1886

1597 (title) Certaine Worthye Manvscript Poems of great Antiquitie..now first published By J. S.

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 185 Origen in his Dialogue against the Marcionites, which I have manuscript.

1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2065 I find this Manuscript-note in Latin in an Ephemerides.

1753 D. Garrick Let. Aug. (1963) I. 199 Nor indeed did I Ever loose or mislay a Manuscript Play before.

1784 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) I. i. xi. 327 Several other very well authenticated, though manuscript, accounts.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 114 The manuscript Plato..brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.

1893 Law Times 95 10/2 Only the manuscript parts of the..proposal were read over to the assured, not the printed matter.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 63 Discoveries of manuscript fragments in Chinese Turkestan gave us knowledge of other medieval Iranian languages.

1990 Bull. Hispanic Stud. 67 355 (advt.) In addition to previously unpublished manuscript material, his sources include the critical prologues of Juan Alfonso de Baena [etc.].

B. n. Abbreviated MS, plural MSS (see MS n.¹).

a. A book, document, etc., written by hand, esp. one written before the general adoption of printing in a country; a handwritten copy of an ancient text.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > piece or quantity of

i-writeOE

writlOE

hand-writc1175

scritec1325

scripta1350

writingc1384

letterc1390

write1428

briefa1450

titlec1450

scroll1534

escript1550

passagec1550

hand write1567

side1579

scrieve1581

manuscript1600

sheetful1711

page1743

slateful1836

chirograph1844

pageful1859

M1899

society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > transcript or copy

transcriptc1290

copyc1330

exemplara1382

again-writingc1384

transumption1412

tenorc1450

examplea1475

transumpt1480

duplicate1532

exemplary1534

double1543

duplicament1574

manuscript1600

apograph1601

exscript1609

exscription1637

transcription1649

autograph1868

society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun]

manuscript book1593

manuscript1600

MS1601

codex1661

papyrus1697

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vii. 288 Hither are brought diuers manuscripts or written bookes [It. libri scritti a mano; L. libri manuscripti] out of Barbarie.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 235 These lesser were found pictured in an old manuscript in Germany, which booke did intreate of the holy land.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 82 In these Monasteries many excellent manu-scripts haue been preserued.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 415 A Latine Manuscript containing the obits and characters of many eminent Benedictines.

1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. ii. 49 This translation..is now among the royal manuscripts in the British Museum.

a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 765/1 The text of Tilius was taken from a Vatican manuscript..from which all other existing manuscripts of the work are copied.

1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xix. 130 The earlier illuminated manuscripts are chiefly copies of the Scriptures.

1913 E. R. Barker Rome of Pilgrims xiii. 183 In an eighth-century manuscript there is a note that Passions are to be read at Office in the Church of S. Peter.

1969 K. Clark Civilisation i. 18 Only three or four antique manuscripts of the Latin authors are still in existence.

1988 Library 10 292 Classical and medieval scholars..were interested only in early manuscripts.

b. gen. A written composition which has not been printed; unprinted or unpublished written material. In later use frequently: an author's written, typed, or word-processed copy of a work, as distinguished from the print of the same.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > as opposed to print

handwriting1534

manuscript1607

society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > original in relation to transcript

original1483

manuscript1607

antigraph1656

protograph1841

diploma1845

Urtext1932

vorlage1965

society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun] > not printed, author's original copy

manuscript1607

society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > typewritten material > author's typed copy

manuscript1967

1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iv. ii. sig. G3^v Mer. I do knowe sufficiently their shop-bookes cannot saue them, there is a further end—Pan. Oh: Sir much may be done by manescript [sic]. Mer. I do confesse it Sir, prouided still they be canonicoll.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 219 Study our manuscripts, those Myriades Of letters, which have past twixt thee and mee.

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 91 I took it out of his own Manuscript sent to me.

1692 (title) The Works Of..Mr. John Bunyan,..The First Volume, Containing Ten of his Excellent Manuscripts prepared for the Press before his Death, never before Printed.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 188 The Life of Sir Robert Sibbald..in the original manuscript in his own hand-writing.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 611 After having received my manuscript they delayed putting it to the press under various pretexts.

1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 189 Men of genius..voluntarily committing a literary suicide in their own manuscripts.

1884 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London I. i. 26 John Mill..borrowed the manuscript [of ‘French Revolution’] as it was thrown off, that he might make notes and suggestions.

1951 M. Cowley Exile's Return vii. 284 Two or three sheets of typewritten manuscript, with words crossed out and new lines scrawled in.

1967 Listener 2 Mar. 282/3 Perhaps you are going to transcribe the tape-recording into typewritten manuscript.

1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War (1979) i. xx. 218 Entirely written in longhand, it was typed by Daisy Mowat direct from my manuscript.

1985 J. Berman Talking Cure i. 13 Freud usually destroyed all the notes and original manuscripts after a work was published.

c. figurative and in extended use.

ΚΠ

1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. D4 Thou art the Manuscript Where Antoninus writes downe all his secrets.

1634 F. Quarles Divine Poems (rev. ed.) 515 (title) Mildreiados. To the Blessed Memory of that faire Manuscript of Vertue..,Mildred, La. Lvckyn.

1715 B. Griffin Injur'd Virtue ii iii 24 Thou'rt the Manuscript where he writes his Secrets.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 238 The Autograph, or original manuscript of the law.

1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 366 The rock-manuscript, Petragraph, or Ogham Inscription.

1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám lxxii. 16 Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

1989 I. Crichton Smith Village 39 There is no miracle greater Than the literature of April, The manuscript of crocuses.

2. in manuscript: in written form, handwritten (not printed); in an unpublished source.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective]

writtenOE

pricked1463

penned1567

handwritten1583

paper1616

literal1621

inditeda1640

in manuscript1646

scribed1662

scriptory1704

scriptured1763

pen and ink1810

scriptitious1815

paper-and-pencil1927

1646 M. Lluelyn Men-miracles 49 I thinke there ne're came before ye,..Or in Manuscript or print, Such a pitifull Parchment story.

1675 Char. Town-gallant 5 A Bundle of Bawdy Songs in Manuscript.

1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 331. ¶11 A distinct Treatise, which I keep by me in Manuscript, upon the Mustachoe.

1737 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 20 Oct. 1/1 I have a large Volume in Manuscript by me, on the Important Subject of Almanack-making.

1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) Ded. 10 As they only exist in manuscript, I shall place them textually before you.

1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iii. 35 If you look at the side-notes in manuscript of some book possessed by our book-loving ancestors.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xvi–xvii. 392 (note) I subjoin..another interesting anaesthetic revelation communicated to me in manuscript by a friend in England.

1946 M. Summers Witchcraft & Black Magic v. 133 The Grimoire of Pope Honorius is pretended to be found in manuscript as early as the thirteenth century.

1978 H. Carpenter Inklings (1981) ii. ii. 104 Strong did not recommend that ‘Outlines..’ be published, and the book remained in manuscript.

†3. A person's handwriting. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun]

handOE

scripturea1400

writing1440

written hand1520

hand write1568

handwriting1571

written hand1580

write1591

calligraphy1645

penmanship1695

hand of write1700

manuscript1771

autography1787

calography1803

calligraph1831

script1834

chirography1838

scription1846

hand lettering1864

back-hand1885

1771 R. Cumberland West Indian iii i. 42 'Tis a most execrable manuscript—Let me see—Martha Fulmer—Who is Martha Fulmer? Pshaw!

1783 W. Cowper Let. 7 Mar. (1981) II. 112 Your Manuscript indeed is close, and I do not reckon mine very lax.

1845 E. A. Poe in Broadway Jrnl. 2 2/1 You may take it for granted, that when manuscript can be read it is never worth reading.

1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. i. iv. 57 He found Dorothea seated and already deep in one of the pamphlets which had some marginal manuscript of Mr Casaubon's.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective.

ΚΠ

1624 R. Broughton Ecclesiastical Protestant Hist. Popes ii. v. sig. F3^v A Protestant Bishop produceth an old Manuscript Author, testifying that the first church of Wincester was hallowed and dedicated to the honor of our Sauiour, October 29. 189.

1651 tr. J. Daillé Treat. conc. Right Vse Fathers 16 That Book which beareth Title, De operibus Cardinalibus Christi..hath been vented abroad under the name of S. Cyprian, onely because by this means it is more profitable to the Manuscript-monger.

1770 B. Porteus in T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. I. p. xlvii He expended upwards of £.300, in arranging and improving the Manuscript Library at Lambeth.

1792 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 21/1 A large manuscript collection of arms in trick, done in the reign of Elizabeth.

1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxxxv That now rare kind of vellum called, among manuscript collectors, ‘uterine’.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iii. 70 The following sample from Professor Starbuck's manuscript collection may serve to give an idea.

1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 64 Greek celature as a take-off strip for the medieval manuscript culture.

1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 36/2 I heard the explosion even inside the manuscript room.

1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. ii. 43/3 ‘Kennedy used Auto-pen and secretarial signatures almost exclusively in Washington,’ says..Redden, who heads the manuscript department at Sotheby's in New York.

C2.

manuscript book n. (a) a book written by hand (as distinct from printed); a notebook containing, or designed for, handwritten material; (b) Music (more fully manuscript music book) a book of bound music paper for recording musical composition by hand.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun]

manuscript book1593

manuscript1600

MS1601

codex1661

papyrus1697

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > equipment for writing music

manuscript book1593

music paper1648

rostrum1740

scoring-paper1840

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > notebook

bookOE

notebook1565

tablebook1582

manuscript book1593

notary1651

pocketbook1660

tablets1773

jotter1882

pencil tablet1882

ring book1891

carnet1897

telephone pad1900

notepad1922

copy1943

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 107 It pleased my Lady Smith, and the coexecutours to bestow certaine rare manuscript bookes vpon me.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To illuminate,..to draw in Gold and Colours the beginning Letters and other Ornaments, as it is done in many old Manuscript Books.

1816 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 81 525 Manuscript books..sufficiently popular to be exemplary.

1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List II. 482 Manuscript music books.

1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 301/2 Manuscript books. Ruled and printed, in Limp Roan, lettered as follows—‘At Home’ Book... 1/6... Address Book... 1/6 [etc.].

1971 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 3) 436 Music paper, paper ruled with staves of five lines for the writing of music. When made up into a book it is called a manuscript music book.

1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Dec. 30/5 He flipped open one of the black, hard-bound manuscript books in which he writes first drafts, longhand, in ink.

1994 Guardian 27 May 11/1 (heading) Manuscript book by Purcell fetches record £276,500.

manuscript paper n. Music (more fully manuscript music paper) paper printed with staves on which to write music.

ΚΠ

1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List II. 483 (heading) Manuscript music paper.

1968 Listener 19 Sept. 377/1 By means of chance operations—the use of the I-Ching, filling in imperfections in the manuscript paper, tossing coins—the parameters of pitch (and therefore form) were removed from the domains of the composer's will and taste.

1996 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 25 Aug. 13 And Abbado's performance was very good, encompassing the vast scale of the writing (Schoenberg had to invent 48-stave manuscript paper to accommodate it) with no sacrifice of detail.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	manuscript
释义	manuscriptadj.n. Brit. /ˈmanjᵿskrɪpt/, U.S. /ˈmænjəˌskrɪp(t)/ Forms: 1500s manvscript, 1600s manescript, 1600s maniescript, 1600s maniscript, 1600s– manuscript. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin manuscriptus, manuscriptum, manū scriptus. Etymology: As adjective < post-classical Latin manuscriptus handwritten (as one word 1514 in a British source, 1526 in Erasmus) < classical Latin manū scrīptus (also scrīptus manū ) < manū , ablative singular of manus hand (see manus n.¹) + scrīptus , past participle of scrībere to write (see scribe n.¹). As noun < post-classical Latin manuscriptum manuscript, written document, charter (a922), use as noun of neuter of manū scriptus. Compare Middle French, French manuscrit (1594 as adjective and noun), Italian manoscritto (a1601 as adjective, a1676 as noun), Catalan manuscrit (1638 as adjective), Spanish manuscrito (probably early 17th cent. as adjective, 1650 as noun), Portuguese manuscrito (late 16th cent. as adjective, late 18th cent. as noun). Compare chirograph n., and earlier post-classical Latin manuscriptio signature (see manuscription n.). Compare also MS n.¹The post-classical Latin noun manuscriptum was used occasionally of documents which derived evidential value from being written by a particular person (e.g. a confession, a note of hand, a charter) until the late 15th cent., when the invention of printing gave it and the associated nouns manuscripta (a1475) and manuscriptus (a1567) wider currency, especially in humanistic use. A. adj. Of a book, document, etc.: written by hand, not printed. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] manuscript1597 chirographic1885 hand-lettered1886 1597 (title) Certaine Worthye Manvscript Poems of great Antiquitie..now first published By J. S. 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 185 Origen in his Dialogue against the Marcionites, which I have manuscript. 1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2065 I find this Manuscript-note in Latin in an Ephemerides. 1753 D. Garrick Let. Aug. (1963) I. 199 Nor indeed did I Ever loose or mislay a Manuscript Play before. 1784 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) I. i. xi. 327 Several other very well authenticated, though manuscript, accounts. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 114 The manuscript Plato..brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt. 1893 Law Times 95 10/2 Only the manuscript parts of the..proposal were read over to the assured, not the printed matter. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 63 Discoveries of manuscript fragments in Chinese Turkestan gave us knowledge of other medieval Iranian languages. 1990 Bull. Hispanic Stud. 67 355 (advt.) In addition to previously unpublished manuscript material, his sources include the critical prologues of Juan Alfonso de Baena [etc.]. B. n. Abbreviated MS, plural MSS (see MS n.¹). 1. a. A book, document, etc., written by hand, esp. one written before the general adoption of printing in a country; a handwritten copy of an ancient text. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > piece or quantity of i-writeOE writlOE hand-writc1175 scritec1325 scripta1350 writingc1384 letterc1390 write1428 briefa1450 titlec1450 scroll1534 escript1550 passagec1550 hand write1567 side1579 scrieve1581 manuscript1600 sheetful1711 page1743 slateful1836 chirograph1844 pageful1859 M1899 society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > transcript or copy transcriptc1290 copyc1330 exemplara1382 again-writingc1384 transumption1412 tenorc1450 examplea1475 transumpt1480 duplicate1532 exemplary1534 double1543 duplicament1574 manuscript1600 apograph1601 exscript1609 exscription1637 transcription1649 autograph1868 society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun] manuscript book1593 manuscript1600 MS1601 codex1661 papyrus1697 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vii. 288 Hither are brought diuers manuscripts or written bookes [It. libri scritti a mano; L. libri manuscripti] out of Barbarie. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 235 These lesser were found pictured in an old manuscript in Germany, which booke did intreate of the holy land. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 82 In these Monasteries many excellent manu-scripts haue been preserued. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 415 A Latine Manuscript containing the obits and characters of many eminent Benedictines. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. ii. 49 This translation..is now among the royal manuscripts in the British Museum. a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 765/1 The text of Tilius was taken from a Vatican manuscript..from which all other existing manuscripts of the work are copied. 1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xix. 130 The earlier illuminated manuscripts are chiefly copies of the Scriptures. 1913 E. R. Barker Rome of Pilgrims xiii. 183 In an eighth-century manuscript there is a note that Passions are to be read at Office in the Church of S. Peter. 1969 K. Clark Civilisation i. 18 Only three or four antique manuscripts of the Latin authors are still in existence. 1988 Library 10 292 Classical and medieval scholars..were interested only in early manuscripts. b. gen. A written composition which has not been printed; unprinted or unpublished written material. In later use frequently: an author's written, typed, or word-processed copy of a work, as distinguished from the print of the same. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > as opposed to print handwriting1534 manuscript1607 society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > original in relation to transcript original1483 manuscript1607 antigraph1656 protograph1841 diploma1845 Urtext1932 vorlage1965 society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun] > not printed, author's original copy manuscript1607 society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > typewritten material > author's typed copy manuscript1967 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iv. ii. sig. G3^v Mer. I do knowe sufficiently their shop-bookes cannot saue them, there is a further end—Pan. Oh: Sir much may be done by manescript [sic]. Mer. I do confesse it Sir, prouided still they be canonicoll. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 219 Study our manuscripts, those Myriades Of letters, which have past twixt thee and mee. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 91 I took it out of his own Manuscript sent to me. 1692 (title) The Works Of..Mr. John Bunyan,..The First Volume, Containing Ten of his Excellent Manuscripts prepared for the Press before his Death, never before Printed. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 188 The Life of Sir Robert Sibbald..in the original manuscript in his own hand-writing. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 611 After having received my manuscript they delayed putting it to the press under various pretexts. 1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 189 Men of genius..voluntarily committing a literary suicide in their own manuscripts. 1884 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London I. i. 26 John Mill..borrowed the manuscript [of ‘French Revolution’] as it was thrown off, that he might make notes and suggestions. 1951 M. Cowley Exile's Return vii. 284 Two or three sheets of typewritten manuscript, with words crossed out and new lines scrawled in. 1967 Listener 2 Mar. 282/3 Perhaps you are going to transcribe the tape-recording into typewritten manuscript. 1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War (1979) i. xx. 218 Entirely written in longhand, it was typed by Daisy Mowat direct from my manuscript. 1985 J. Berman Talking Cure i. 13 Freud usually destroyed all the notes and original manuscripts after a work was published. c. figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. D4 Thou art the Manuscript Where Antoninus writes downe all his secrets. 1634 F. Quarles Divine Poems (rev. ed.) 515 (title) Mildreiados. To the Blessed Memory of that faire Manuscript of Vertue..,Mildred, La. Lvckyn. 1715 B. Griffin Injur'd Virtue ii iii 24 Thou'rt the Manuscript where he writes his Secrets. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 238 The Autograph, or original manuscript of the law. 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 366 The rock-manuscript, Petragraph, or Ogham Inscription. 1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám lxxii. 16 Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! 1989 I. Crichton Smith Village 39 There is no miracle greater Than the literature of April, The manuscript of crocuses. 2. in manuscript: in written form, handwritten (not printed); in an unpublished source. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective] writtenOE pricked1463 penned1567 handwritten1583 paper1616 literal1621 inditeda1640 in manuscript1646 scribed1662 scriptory1704 scriptured1763 pen and ink1810 scriptitious1815 paper-and-pencil1927 1646 M. Lluelyn Men-miracles 49 I thinke there ne're came before ye,..Or in Manuscript or print, Such a pitifull Parchment story. 1675 Char. Town-gallant 5 A Bundle of Bawdy Songs in Manuscript. 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 331. ¶11 A distinct Treatise, which I keep by me in Manuscript, upon the Mustachoe. 1737 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 20 Oct. 1/1 I have a large Volume in Manuscript by me, on the Important Subject of Almanack-making. 1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) Ded. 10 As they only exist in manuscript, I shall place them textually before you. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iii. 35 If you look at the side-notes in manuscript of some book possessed by our book-loving ancestors. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xvi–xvii. 392 (note) I subjoin..another interesting anaesthetic revelation communicated to me in manuscript by a friend in England. 1946 M. Summers Witchcraft & Black Magic v. 133 The Grimoire of Pope Honorius is pretended to be found in manuscript as early as the thirteenth century. 1978 H. Carpenter Inklings (1981) ii. ii. 104 Strong did not recommend that ‘Outlines..’ be published, and the book remained in manuscript. †3. A person's handwriting. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] handOE scripturea1400 writing1440 written hand1520 hand write1568 handwriting1571 written hand1580 write1591 calligraphy1645 penmanship1695 hand of write1700 manuscript1771 autography1787 calography1803 calligraph1831 script1834 chirography1838 scription1846 hand lettering1864 back-hand1885 1771 R. Cumberland West Indian iii i. 42 'Tis a most execrable manuscript—Let me see—Martha Fulmer—Who is Martha Fulmer? Pshaw! 1783 W. Cowper Let. 7 Mar. (1981) II. 112 Your Manuscript indeed is close, and I do not reckon mine very lax. 1845 E. A. Poe in Broadway Jrnl. 2 2/1 You may take it for granted, that when manuscript can be read it is never worth reading. 1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. i. iv. 57 He found Dorothea seated and already deep in one of the pamphlets which had some marginal manuscript of Mr Casaubon's. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective. ΚΠ 1624 R. Broughton Ecclesiastical Protestant Hist. Popes ii. v. sig. F3^v A Protestant Bishop produceth an old Manuscript Author, testifying that the first church of Wincester was hallowed and dedicated to the honor of our Sauiour, October 29. 189. 1651 tr. J. Daillé Treat. conc. Right Vse Fathers 16 That Book which beareth Title, De operibus Cardinalibus Christi..hath been vented abroad under the name of S. Cyprian, onely because by this means it is more profitable to the Manuscript-monger. 1770 B. Porteus in T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. I. p. xlvii He expended upwards of £.300, in arranging and improving the Manuscript Library at Lambeth. 1792 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 21/1 A large manuscript collection of arms in trick, done in the reign of Elizabeth. 1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxxxv That now rare kind of vellum called, among manuscript collectors, ‘uterine’. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iii. 70 The following sample from Professor Starbuck's manuscript collection may serve to give an idea. 1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 64 Greek celature as a take-off strip for the medieval manuscript culture. 1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 36/2 I heard the explosion even inside the manuscript room. 1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. ii. 43/3 ‘Kennedy used Auto-pen and secretarial signatures almost exclusively in Washington,’ says..Redden, who heads the manuscript department at Sotheby's in New York. C2. manuscript book n. (a) a book written by hand (as distinct from printed); a notebook containing, or designed for, handwritten material; (b) Music (more fully manuscript music book) a book of bound music paper for recording musical composition by hand. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun] manuscript book1593 manuscript1600 MS1601 codex1661 papyrus1697 society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > equipment for writing music manuscript book1593 music paper1648 rostrum1740 scoring-paper1840 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > notebook bookOE notebook1565 tablebook1582 manuscript book1593 notary1651 pocketbook1660 tablets1773 jotter1882 pencil tablet1882 ring book1891 carnet1897 telephone pad1900 notepad1922 copy1943 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 107 It pleased my Lady Smith, and the coexecutours to bestow certaine rare manuscript bookes vpon me. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To illuminate,..to draw in Gold and Colours the beginning Letters and other Ornaments, as it is done in many old Manuscript Books. 1816 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 81 525 Manuscript books..sufficiently popular to be exemplary. 1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List II. 482 Manuscript music books. 1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 301/2 Manuscript books. Ruled and printed, in Limp Roan, lettered as follows—‘At Home’ Book... 1/6... Address Book... 1/6 [etc.]. 1971 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 3) 436 Music paper, paper ruled with staves of five lines for the writing of music. When made up into a book it is called a manuscript music book. 1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Dec. 30/5 He flipped open one of the black, hard-bound manuscript books in which he writes first drafts, longhand, in ink. 1994 Guardian 27 May 11/1 (heading) Manuscript book by Purcell fetches record £276,500. manuscript paper n. Music (more fully manuscript music paper) paper printed with staves on which to write music. ΚΠ 1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List II. 483 (heading) Manuscript music paper. 1968 Listener 19 Sept. 377/1 By means of chance operations—the use of the I-Ching, filling in imperfections in the manuscript paper, tossing coins—the parameters of pitch (and therefore form) were removed from the domains of the composer's will and taste. 1996 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 25 Aug. 13 And Abbado's performance was very good, encompassing the vast scale of the writing (Schoenberg had to invent 48-stave manuscript paper to accommodate it) with no sacrifice of detail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1593
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