Question

what are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?

Answer 1

While using manuscripts, the historians face a number of difficulties. Manuscripts were written with hand and as a result there were small but significant difference between any two copies. The scribes 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.

Answer 2

Question :-

☞ what are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts ?

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✒ Manuscripts in early days were handwritten.

✒ Writers used palm leaves as paper for writing manuscripts. The historians used to copy down those manuscripts.

✒ Different historians presented their version in their own way as many of the words or sentences were beyond their understanding.

✒ So they copied what they understood. Later it was difficult to recognize which one was the original manuscript. Historians interpreted the facts as per the manuscripts which they got.

Hence we find a number of facts with different illustrations in history.

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❧ Extra shots :-

❥ What is manuscript ?

✒ Manuscripts can be defined as a handwritten record of information. These are useful sources of information about the past which could be in the form of a letter, on leaves and barks of trees or scrolls. Palm leaf manuscripts made of dried palm leaves were commonly used in India.

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