The phrase "a complete manuscript" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a fully finished written work, typically in the context of literature, academic papers, or any formal writing.
Example: "After months of revisions, I finally submitted a complete manuscript to the publisher for review."
Alternatives: "a finished manuscript" or "a finalized manuscript".
Duly impressed, Franzen asked her to send along a complete manuscript when she had one.
A complete manuscript in pristine condition, he said, "is almost never broken up".
Second, the publishers invited to bid for her work-in-progress were not given a complete manuscript (that was old-school), but a sample of some 100 pages and a synopsis.
She dictated her life story to a priest, but her autobiography was only known through excerpts printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1501, and by Henry Pepwell, who called her a "devoute ancres", in 1521, until a complete manuscript – thought to be a copy made from the original, possibly under Kempe's supervision – was discovered in a cupboard in the 1930s.
Recently the rubble of the earlier floor was removed during renovations, and curator Father Bigoul found a complete manuscript, embedded in a section of disused water pipe.
One potential policy that might, if implemented, improve the publication rate of presentations at the ESSKA congress involves encouraging the submission of a complete manuscript accompanying each abstract or within a set period of time following each presentation.
After Crichton's death in 2008, a completed manuscript was discovered, and it was published the following year as Pirate Latitudes.
By the end of 1979 I had a completed manuscript, and the book had publishers, the best there were in those days, Jonathan Cape in London and Alfred Knopf in New York.
She felt her story already formed, at the tips of her fingers, and so it must have been: Five months later, a completed manuscript sailed to America.
(He also recorded at the time having recently sent a completed manuscript to his publisher, although there's no evidence of this, and in any event he received no response).
Only at certain times, Mr. Shawn said, would he be dealing directly with me; and those occasions would be, first, when I had an idea for a story and wished to propose it; second, when I had a completed manuscript to give to him; and third, when the story went to press.
