Whenever I get cross about the technology, which is often, I try and reflect on how much worse it must have been back in the days when a writer could lose their only copy of a manuscript.
In the early 1690s he had sent Locke a copy of a manuscript attempting to prove that Trinitarian passages in the Bible were latter-day corruptions of the original text.
LOOKING at a copy of a manuscript of "A Christmas Carol, David Greethamm, a distinguished professor at the CUNY Graduate School, made a perfectly sensible observation about Charles Dickens the editor: "The strike-throughs are so bold, so opaque — they achieve their purpose of striking out.
Once there is a copy of a manuscript online that is as good as, or clearer than, the original, said Pnina Shor, the project manager at the antiquities authority, there will be no need to expose the fragile fragments of parchment and papyrus to the ruinous effects of light and air again.
The three-page letter was written in 1852 to a Miss Holmes, who had sent the novelist a copy of a manuscript she had written.
With the advent of the printing press, it was now cheaper to print thousands of exact copies of a manuscript than to alter one by hand.
According to Hort, it was copied from a manuscript whose line length was 12 14 letters per line, because where the Codex Vaticanus's scribe made large omissions, they were typically 12 14 letters long.
Kenyon suggested that the manuscript originated in Alexandria: "It is noteworthy that the section numeration of the Pauline Epistles in B shows that it was copied from a manuscript in which the Epistle to the Hebrews was placed between Galatians and Ephesians — an arrangement which elsewhere occurs only in the Sahidic version".
Let us suppose further that copying mistakes in a manuscript are statistically independent events.
Literature Matrices also enable researchers to obtain a complete summary of the literature without going through the cumbersome process of copying and reading a manuscript for the first time.
But then Christopher Rush sent him a manuscript copy of his new novel about Shakespeare called Will.
