manuscript

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A handwritten book, poem, or other document, or a collection of such handwritten documents bound together.
• noun A version of a book, article, or other work before being published or prepared for publication.
• noun Handwriting, especially in contrast to print.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Written with the hand; in handwriting (not printed).
• Consisting of writings or written books.
• noun A book, paper, or instrument written by hand with ink or other pigment, or with a pencil or the like; a writing of any kind, as distinguished from anything that is printed. Especially
• noun Such a book, paper, or instrument so written before the introduction and general adoption of printing in the fifteenth century, or in a style in vogue before the invention of printing.
• To write by hand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An original literary or musical composition written by the author, formerly with the hand, now usually by typewriter or word processor. It is contrasted with a printed copy.
• noun Writing, as opposed to print.
• adjective Written with or by the hand; not printed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Which is handwritten, or by extension typewritten, as opposed to mechanical reproduction.
• noun A book, composition or any other document, (type)written by hand, not mechanically reproduced.
• noun A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun handwritten book or document
• noun the form of a literary work submitted for publication