manuscript
/ˈmænjuskrɪpt/·매뉴스크립트·noun
a hand-written or original text
LatinCEFR B2
Root
manu- (by hand) + Latin 'scribere' (to write)
Latin manu scriptum (written by hand) → Medieval Latin manuscriptum → English manuscript
In a word
manu (hand) + script (write) = 'written by hand'. Before the printing press, every book was, literally, a manuscript. The same manu lives in manual (by hand) and manufacture (originally "to make by hand"). When you attach a manuscript to an email, the word still remembers the monastery scribe.
Examples
The author sent her manuscript to a publisher.
The library keeps medieval manuscripts.
He revised the manuscript three times.
Related
describetranscriptsubscribescripturemanual