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Manuscript vs Bookfell - What's the difference?

manuscript | bookfell |

As nouns the difference between manuscript and bookfell

is that manuscript is a book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced while bookfell is a skin prepared for writing upon; a sheet of vellum or parchment; paper.

As an adjective manuscript

is handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

manuscript

English

(wikipedia manuscript)

Adjective

(-)
  • handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts , […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.

    • Abbreviations

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    Derived terms

    * manuscriptal * manuscription

    Synonyms

    * handwrit * autograph * handwriting

    Related terms

    * script

    bookfell

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A skin prepared for writing upon; a sheet of vellum or parchment; paper.
  • A vellum or parchment manuscript.
  • * 1866 , Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Apuleius (Barbarus), Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos), Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England :
    • Write this on a bookfell or parchment so long that it may embrace the head on the outside, and hang it on the neck of the man who needs it; it will soon be well with him.
  • * 1878 , George Stephens, Thunor the Thunderer :
    • I cannot refer to any facsimile of this bookfell .