Manuscript

The word manuscript means hand-writing, from Latin manus (hand?) and script (writing).

1. A manuscript, or script for short]], is an author's or dramatist?'s text being used by a publisher for making a book (after editing?) or by a [theater company]? or film crew for making a performance?.

2. In Library and Information Science, a manuscript is any hand-written item in the collections of a library or archive?, e.g. archived letters or diary from a person.