Question

What are manuscripts? Briefly describe the difficulties faced by historians in

using them.​

Answer 1

The historians face several difficulties in using manuscripts. There was no printing press in those days so scribes copied manuscripts by hand. Manuscript copying is not an easy job. As scribes copied manuscripts, they also introduced small changes—a word here, a sentence there

Answer 2

Answer:

Manuscripts :

a book, document, or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed.

Difficulties faced by historians:

The historians face several difficulties in using manuscripts. There was no printing press in those days so scribe copied manuscripts by hand. Manuscript copying is not an easy job. As scribe copied manuscripts, they also introduced small changes—a word here, a sentence there. They were written with hand and as a result there were small but significant difference between any two copies. The person who copied them introduced changes. As a result historians have to read different manuscript versions of the same text to guess what the authors had originally written.