manuscript collection

C9577
concept

A manuscript collection is an organized group of handwritten, typed, or otherwise unpublished documents, often related by creator, subject, or provenance, preserved and managed as a single archival unit.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
manuscript collection canonical 29
collection of manuscripts 2
historical manuscript collection 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: manuscript collection
Generated description
A manuscript collection is an organized group of handwritten, typed, or otherwise unpublished documents, often related by creator, subject, or provenance, preserved and managed as a single archival unit.

Instances (38)

Instance Via concept surface
Stevenson manuscripts (copies and related materials) —
Parker Collection —
Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection —
Osborn Collection of English literary and historical manuscripts —
Codex Atlanticus —
manuscripts of War and Peace literary manuscript collection
Harleian Library
linked to: Lord Oxford
—
Madrid Codices —
Codex Forster —
Cotton Library —
manuscripts of Isaac Newton collection of manuscripts
manuscripts of Lord Byron literary manuscript collection
Möðruvallabók —
Turfan manuscripts —
Gödel's Nachlass collection of manuscripts
Ruskin Collection —
Firkovich Collection —
Southern Historical Collection —
Leonardo da Vinci notebooks —
Cotton collection of manuscripts —
Oxyrhynchus Papyri —
Library Cave manuscript cache
Harry A. Blackmun Papers —
Grenville Library —
Clarke Papers historical manuscript collection
Harleian Library —
Harleian Library —
papers and correspondence of George Washington —
Herzog August Library manuscript collection —
Edwards family correspondence and journals historical manuscript collection
Tsinghua bamboo slips bamboo manuscript collection
Bodmer Papyri —
Chester Beatty Papyri —
Grey Collection at Auckland Libraries —
Qasr Ibrim manuscripts —
Julia Child's diaries —
Escorial codices medieval manuscript collection
Parker Library manuscript collection —