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a manuscript
It is called an autograph.
Manuscript usually refers to the original material, penned by the author him/herself. It is anything written [script] by hand [manu-] as opposed to being printed or otherwise stored or mass produced.
Manus means hand in Latin and scriptus means written, so manuscript literally means written by hand.
For example: manufacture, manuscript, manumission, manipulate, manacle.
a hand written or typed composition
codex in the Middle Ages; a manuscript now before printing and publishing.Nowadays manucripts are not hand-written but typed.
The English term for a first copy of a book or play written by hand is "manuscript."
The affix for "manuscript" is the prefix "manu-". The meaning of this prefix is 'done by hand', 'done manually'.
manuscript
After finishing his novel the writer turned in his manuscript to his editor.A manuscript is any hand-written document. A sentence using the word "manuscript" would be: The manuscript was a culmination of poetry and drawings that she had written over the past ten years.
Manuscript derives from two Latin words: manu = by hand (manus = hand) scriptus = written (scribo = I write)