manuscript
man·u·script / ˈmanyəˌskript/ • n. a book, document, or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed: an illuminated manuscript. ∎ an author's text that has not yet been published: preparing the final manuscript her autobiography remained in manuscript.ORIGIN: late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin manuscriptus, from manu ‘by hand’ + scriptus ‘written’ (past participle of scribere).
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