Manuscripts are not defined by their contents, which may combine writing with mathematical calculations, maps, music notation, explanatory figures, or illustrations. īefore the arrival of prints, all documents and books were manuscripts.

More recently, the term has come to be understood to further include any written, typed, or word-processed copy of an author's work, as distinguished from the rendition as a printed version of the same. HMD Collection, MS E 78.Ī manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. Initial 'V' rendered as 'U' of 'Vita brevis, ars vero longa', or 'Life is short, but the art is long'. Inside the letter is a picture of a master in cathedra expounding on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. Inside the letter is a picture of a master holding up a flask while explaining the diagnostic significance of urine to a student or a patient. On its very bottom is an illuminated letter 'U' – initial of 'Urina ergo est colamentum sanguinis' (Urine is the filtrate of the blood). The right hand page is only shown in part. Inside the letter is a picture of a master on bench pointing at a raised flask while lecturing on the 'Book on urines' of Theophilus. On the top of the left hand page is an illuminated letter 'D' – initial of 'De urinarum differencia negocium' (The matter of the differences of urines). Image of two facing pages of the illuminated manuscript of 'Isagoge', fols. For other uses, see Manuscript (disambiguation).Ĭhrist Pantocrator seated in a capital 'U' in an illuminated manuscript from the Badische Landesbibliothek, Germany (from c.

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