Hand copy

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Hand copy by the orientalist Fuat Sezgin of Carl Brockelmann's History of Arabic Literature, First Supplement (1937)

In library science, the hand copy refers to a copy that is available for personal use or for the hand of an author, for example books or sheet music, from one's own publications or from others.

Thanks to their handwritten notes, hand copies are often considered a source of new knowledge about the creative processes of authors. So is Immanuel Kant's personal copy of the Critique of Reason practischen 1788 "as the textual basis for the new edition of this work within the output Kant's collected writings ".

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  1. universal_lexikon.deacademic.com
  2. Compare “Hand copy” on Google Scholar
  3. Christoph Wolff : Bach's "Hand copy" of the Goldberg Variations: A New Source . In: Journal of the American Musicological Society . tape 29 , 2, summer. University of California Press , 1976, pp. 224-241 , JSTOR : 831018 ( ucpress.edu [accessed December 15, 2012]).
  4. Kirchner's personal copy . On Theodor Kirchner's Variations op.85 . ( 2pianos.ch [accessed December 15, 2012]).
  5. Critic of Practical Reason (hand copy) . ( bbaw.de [accessed December 15, 2012]).