The phrase "authentic manuscript" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a document that is genuine and original, often in the context of historical texts or literary works.
Example: "The museum displayed an authentic manuscript of Shakespeare's plays, drawing scholars and enthusiasts from around the world."
Alternatives: "genuine manuscript" or "original manuscript".
No Scarlet Letter, no "authentic" manuscript is to be discovered there, only a signature, thousands of times repeated, scrawled in ironic counterpoint to the dwindling authority of the writer's name.
There is no authentic original manuscript, and even if there were, it would likely not represent what Polo dictated since Rustichello asserted his own personality and familiar phraseology, especially in the standardized description of battles.
The Haydn scholar Georg Feder, who was visiting Australia at the time, then verified the scores to be the authentic original manuscripts of the four quartets.
Of the latter's work a single authentic example survives, a manuscript of the Qurʾān in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
Marion Jung, a press officer at the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, confirmed that the ministry was looking into the case and would decide if the manuscript was authentic and if it should be put on a list of cultural treasures that are not allowed to leave the state.
"I am happy to agree with Sotheby's that this manuscript is 'an authentic and important piece of musical history'; but it was not written by Beethoven".
"This unfortunately had a direct impact on the auction sale, but Sotheby's stands by its description of the manuscript as an authentic and important piece of musical history and Sotheby's view is shared by the majority of world-renowned Beethoven scholars who have inspected the manuscript personally".
"I owe about a million dollars," said the tall 43‐year‐old author, with the same casual aplomb with which he convinced editors at McGraw‐Hill to give him $650,000 for what he said was a manuscript based on authentic interviews with the reclusive billionaire.
Thus in the tradition of the 6th-century monk Cassiodorus's Institutiones the relationships of the manuscripts of the authentic version of the text of Book II may be represented by the accompanying diagram.
Only a handful of manuscripts containing the authentic writings of such groups were known; they existed primarily in two sets of Coptic texts, the Askew Codex and the Bruce Codex, which were discovered in Egypt in the 18th century but not published until the 19th century.
Appraisers said the auction offers them an opportunity to see rare items, such as authentic slave shackles and certified rare manuscripts, and use the sale prices to set standards.
