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manuscript

[man-yuh-skript] / ˈmæn yəˌskrɪpt /
NOUN
book, script
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In 2015 Ms. Allen and a fellow historian, Emily Sneff, discovered an elaborate parchment manuscript of the Declaration of Independence in the unlikely location of England’s West Sussex Record Office.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Other than the official, signed copy at the National Archives, this is the only known parchment manuscript copy in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

The book’s editor, Gina Iaquinta, doesn’t speak Spanish, but when she read the manuscript for the first time, she says the writing made her feel like she did.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Nikki wants to write full-time and believes that a lack of love in her life is stifling her manuscript.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

In the records are such words as ‘stregoica’—witch, ‘ordog,’ and ‘pokol’—Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as ‘wampyr,’ which we all understand too well.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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