• IPA: /ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/

manuscript (not comparable)

1. Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

• French: manuscrit
• German: Handschrift, Manuskript
• Italian: manoscritto
• Portuguese: manuscrito
• Russian: рукопи́сный
• Spanish: manuscrito

From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum, a calque of Germanic [Term?] origin: compare Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift ("manuscript") (c.

manuscript (plural manuscripts)

1. A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:

     In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

2. A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.

• handwrit
• autograph
• handwriting

• script
• typescript

• French: manuscrit
• German: Handschrift
• Italian: manoscritto
• Portuguese: manuscrito
• Russian: ру́копись
• Spanish: manuscrito

• French: manuscrit
• Italian: manoscritto
• Portuguese: manuscrito
• Russian: ру́копись
• Spanish: manuscrito