Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by conditions of production]

Narrower term/s

• autographs (manuscripts)[+]
  • holographs (autographs)
• palimpsests (manuscripts)
• manuscripts for publication
• papyri (manuscripts)[+]
  • subliterary papyri
  • documentary papyri
  • literary papyri
• peciae
• codices (bound manuscripts)[+]
  • screenfolds (manuscript books)
• illuminated manuscripts
• rolls of arms
• compilation manuscripts
• palm-leaf manuscripts

Anotations

Scope note:

Handwritten documents, particularly books and other documents created before the invention of the printing press. May also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.