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Question
Answer the following question.
What are the manuscripts? On what surfaces were they; written?
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Solution
Manuscripts are the handwritten records of the past in the form of books. These records were written on a variety of surfaces such as dried sheep or goatskin, dried palm leaf, the bark of birch trees, and much later, on paper.
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