Sentence examples for imperfect manuscript from inspiring English sources
A perfectionist, he decreed that the imperfect manuscript should never be published.
From a deep split in English and German textual theory, the status of the all-important "copy-text" (either the 1922 edition or Joyce's chaotic and imperfect manuscript) became the subject of a fierce scholarly debate between Gabler and his nemesis, John Kidd.
Imperfect: incomplete manuscript; leaves 42-43 also wanting.
Imperfect: "The manuscript lacks the first quire, including the Preface and Prologue as well as stanzas 1-67". English verse version of De consolatione philosophiae by John Walton.
The earliest surviving monument of Spanish literature, and one of its most distinctive masterpieces, is the Cantar de mío Cid ("Song of My Cid"; also called Poema de mío Cid), an epic poem of the mid-12th century (the existing manuscript is an imperfect copy of 1307).
Imperfect: left edge torn and repaired with manuscript (17th century?) paper waste.
Colophon: "Imprime a Paris par Benoist Preuost...1555". Hill copy 1: Imperfect: p. 369-370, 375-378 lacking, supplied in manuscript facsimiles.
Meanwhile, journals in some disciplines seem to be abandoning manuscript editing, a trend which seems to parallel a similar decline in editorial tolerance for imperfect English.
I liked the philosophical message of the manuscript that major innovations usually start with a chaotic, messy, "evolutionary brainstorming" phase in which freshly generated, still imperfect elements are being freely exchanged and recombined.
