A manuscript is a text that contains information that has been handwritten on any flexible and manageable medium such as, for example; a paper, a parchment or a papyrus, these are documented or written with materials such as the ink of a pen, a ballpoint pen, a graphite pencil, etc.
A manuscript is a kind of document written by hand on paper or papyrus and that represents within a historical perspective, the main source of knowledge. Most of the time, this term is used to refer to a text written in handwriting by a recognized author and that, therefore, will add a historical value to said document.
Due to technological advances, communication between people (when text is spoken) has become more digital, reason why it is associated normal handwritten word with old or ancestral, however, any handwritten document may be considered a manuscript, a letter is an example of a modern manuscript. In the same way, this name usually refers to the writings made by authors or writers famous or recognized for creating literary works in the world of knowledge and are of great relevance in human history.
The history of the manuscripts is very old, being these a fundamental part of the great cultures. Its main function was to transmit stories, knowledge or beliefs to the next generations or to other cultures. Among the oldest manuscript creators are the Scribes of Ancient Egypt, a fact that has been confirmed thanks to the discovery of the oldest handwritten text, an ancient papyrus dating from 2914-2867 BC and found in the tomb. Hemaka, a high official of the Pharaoh Den, located in the Saqqara necropolis, although the hieroglyphic signs that have been written in this manuscript have not survived.
