means A manuscript is a document written or typed by hand or otherwise prepared by an author, especially a draft of a book or article submitted for publication before it becomes a printed work.

from Straight from Latin: manus, 'hand,' plus scriptus, 'written' — literally 'written by hand,' from the medieval phrase littera manuscripta. The word kept its meaning long after hands gave way to printing presses and keyboards, a fossil from the age when every copy of a text was inked out by some scribe in a cold room, which is why we still call a typed draft a 'manuscript' even when no hand has touched a quill.