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[116]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.
Passage: Before printing, every book had to be copied by hand, a slow and costly process that kept books rare and expensive. In the fifteenth century, movable metal type changed this completely. A printer could set the same letters again and again, producing hundreds of copies of one book in the time a scribe needed for one. Books became cheaper, students could own texts, and new ideas travelled faster than rulers could control them. Printing did not make people wiser by itself; it made error and falsehood travel faster too. But it ended the age when knowledge belonged only to the few who could afford a manuscript, and it made public debate possible on a new scale. In the context of the passage, the word 'manuscript' most nearly means:
Option 3 : a book or document written by hand before printing
Detailed Solution
सही उत्तर a book or document written by hand before printing है।
In this passage 'manuscript' means: a book or document written by hand before printing.
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[116]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.
Passage: Before printing, every book had to be copied by hand, a slow and costly process that kept books rare and expensive. In the fifteenth century, movable metal type changed this completely. A printer could set the same letters again and again, producing hundreds of copies of one book in the time a scribe needed for one. Books became cheaper, students could own texts, and new ideas travelled faster than rulers could control them. Printing did not make people wiser by itself; it made error and falsehood travel faster too. But it ended the age when knowledge belonged only to the few who could afford a manuscript, and it made public debate possible on a new scale. In the context of the passage, the word 'manuscript' most nearly means:
Correct Answer: a book or document written by hand before printing
In this passage 'manuscript' means: a book or document written by hand before printing.