Question

What are the difficulties that historians face in using manuscripts?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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

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⟹The handwritten books were very expensive and very fragile.

⟹They were difficult to carry and had to be handled carefully.

⟹They were also not easy to read as the script was written in many styles.

⟹Because of this difficulty they were not widely read.