what is manuscripts ? discuss thier evolution and limitations?
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Manuscript :
A manuscript was, traditionally, any document that is written by hand or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.
#Manuscripts could not satisfy the everincreasing demand for books.
#Copying was an expensive, laborious and time-consuming business.
#Manuscripts were fragile, awkward to handle and could not be carried around easily as they were big and heavy.
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manuscript. ... The noun manuscript evolved from the Latin manu scriptus, meaning “written by hand.” Manu is “hand” and scriptus is “to write." It refers to old documents actually written by hand before books were made, but it can also refer to a writer's unpublished work whether it's handwritten or typed.
EVOLUTION:The originals of ancient literary works gave rise to copies. These manuscripts were often copied in turn; often, too, manuscripts eventually perished. The editor of an ancient work must consider the relations among the manuscripts, extant and lost, which transmitted the text, and the structure of such manuscript populations in general. For example, most family-trees reconstructed by editors for the manuscripts of ancient works show exactly two main branches; is this to be expected, or due to some flaw in methods of reconstruction? Such questions are approached by modelling the evolving manuscript population through a birth-and-death process, with illustrative data for Greek and Latin literature.
LIMITATIONS:
1. Manuscripts could not satisfy the everincreasing demand for books.
2. Copying was an expensive, laborious and time-consuming business.
3. Manuscripts were fragile, awkward to handle and could not be carried around easily as they were big and heavy.
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