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  2. Manuscript - Wikipedia

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    The earliest dated example is the Diamond Sutra of 868. In the Islamic world and the West, all books were in manuscript until the introduction of movable type printing in about 1450. [clarification needed] Manuscript copying of books continued for a least a century, as printing remained expensive. Private or government documents remained hand ...

  3. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (manuscripts) - Wikipedia

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    Manuscript Description (City, Institution, Shelf Number). Only the information that is necessary to identify the manuscript should be used within the parentheses. In practice this would mean that the name of the city could often be left out, for example it is not necessary to add "London" in British Library manuscript titles.

  4. Manuscript (publishing) - Wikipedia

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    A manuscript is the work that an author submits to a publisher, editor, or producer for publication. Especially in academic publishing , manuscript can also refer to an accepted document, reviewed but not yet in a final format, distributed in advance as a preprint .

  5. List of manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Codex Gigas, the largest manuscript of the World, 13th century; Codex Sinaiticus, 4th century; Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209, 4th century; Codex Bezae, 5th century; Codex Washingtonianus, 4th or 5th century; Dead Sea scrolls; Freising manuscripts, 10th century; The Garland of Howth, late 9th to early 10th centuries; Gospels of Tsar Ivan ...

  6. Manuscriptology - Wikipedia

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    Example of a manuscript. Bhagavad-Gita, North India, 19th century. Manuscriptology is another word for codicology, namely the study of history and literature through the use of hand-written documents.

  7. Canons of page construction - Wikipedia

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    Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.

  8. Standard manuscript format - Wikipedia

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    Standard manuscript format is a formatting style for manuscripts of short stories, novels, poems and other literary works submitted by authors to publishers.Even with the advent of desktop publishing, making it possible for anyone to prepare text that appears professionally typeset, many publishers still require authors to submit manuscripts within their respective guidelines.

  9. Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia

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    Material: Vellum: Size: ≈ 23.5 cm × 16.2 cm × 5 cm (9.3 in × 6.4 in × 2.0 in) Format: One column in the page body, with slightly indented right margin and with paragraph divisions, and often with stars in the left margin; [12] the rest of the manuscript appears in the form of graphics (i.e. diagrams or markings for certain parts related to illustrations), containing some foldable parts