The Canon of Scripture: Terminology (5 of 5 notes)

Part Two
Bibliology: 13 THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

5. Manuscript. A manuscript is a composition written by hand, as opposed to a printed one. Until the invention of the printing press all copies of the Scripture were in manuscript form. Manuscripts were written either upon papyrus, a kind of paper, or on parchment, a specially prepared skin of sheep or of some other animal. There are no known original manuscripts of any of the books of the Bible now in existence. Two forms of manuscripts were used, the roll and the codex or book form. As noted earlier an Uncial manuscript is one written in capital letters, a form used up until about the tenth century A.D., and the Minuscule, written in small letters, and used from about the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The latter are also known as Cursives, since the writing was in a running form with the letters joined together.

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