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Her works circulated in manuscript form among family and friends; only a handful were published during her life—anonymously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In May 1962, Cormac McCarthy addressed a letter to the “fiction editor” of Random House—the only publisher he’d heard of—and sent it along with a manuscript he had not proofread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"We tested several passages, from different bits of the manuscript, to come up with the identical result: 100 percent AI," the group said on X.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The manuscript, known as Codex Azcatitlán, has been held in France's Bibliothèque Nationale since 1898, but had already spent decades outside of Mexico before that.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Only part of the original manuscript survives, written in Nahuatl, the Mexica language, which Sahagun learned to speak fluently.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Possible precedents flicker: Maya hieroglyphs, Buddhist mandalas, Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts, Bosch, Gauguin, feathered Trinidadian carnival masks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

And others are using AI-detection software to vet manuscripts, although the accuracy of these tools remains a source of debate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Libraries, museums, and other institutions have understandable concerns about allowing researchers to take samples from rare and culturally important manuscripts if doing so might cause permanent damage.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Speaking ahead of the auction, Will Passey, a specialist in the books and manuscripts department at Sotheby's, said the "moving" letter served as "a testament to the strength" of their friendship.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Winchester’s Troper of two-voice organa manuscripts and its mighty four- hundred-voice pipe organ were the work of Anglo-Saxon Christians.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall