Question

What are the difficulties faced by historians in using manuscripts?(write in your own words)
Ans) There was no printing press in those days so the scribes copied manuscripts by hand. As scribes copied manuscripts ,they also introduced small changes in a word or a sentence which grew over centuries of copying.
2) Original manuscripts of author rarely found today, so historians are totally depend upon the copies made by later scribes.
3) As a result they have to read different manuscript versions of the same text to guess what the authors had originally written.

Answer 1

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