Why were the information fr om the manuscript difficult to use
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. As there was no printing presses before 1750, scribes used to copy down the manuscripts which were hand-written, Sometimes it was difficult to recognize the original script. So the scribes used their own way of interpreting the facts.
During this period, there was no printing press so the manuscripts were copied by the scribes by hand. The copying of the manuscripts relied upon the accuracy of the scribes. While copying the manuscripts, the scribes made unintentional errors. At times, scribes would also correct the spelling, grammar and alter what they believed to be mistakes inherent in the text. They amended apparent historical and geographical errors. These small differences grew over centuries of copying until manuscripts of the same text became substantially different from one another. As a result, historians find it difficult to use the information from the manuscript and have to read different manuscript versions of the same text to guess what the author had originally written.