The historians face several difficulties in using manuscripts.

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Using manuscripts presents a variety of challenges for historians. Scribes transcribed texts by hand at the time because there was no printing press available. Duplicating manuscripts is a difficult task. Scribes made small modifications to manuscripts as they were copied—a word here, a phrase there. Over several years of copying, these small differences increased to the point that copies of the same text significantly diverged from one another. Given how infrequently we can currently locate the author's original text, this is a severe issue. The copy that later scribes produced is the only source of information we have. As a result, in order to determine what the author had originally intended to write, historians must read multiple manuscript copies of the same work.

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