The text is known from three partial manuscripts, and additional fragments, all of which are in Coptic.
There are eleven surviving full and partial manuscripts of the Sic et non.
You have unedited copy, partial manuscripts and proposals floating around town.
When they were printed there were many partial manuscripts in circulation that were not available to the first printers.
Absently, she glanced at the partial manuscript she'd tucked into her briefcase.
I think Marino must have been referring to his receipting a partial manuscript to the forensic labs, pages of which may be an earlier work.
Excerpts from earlier works were included, and I suspected this might have explained the partial manuscript we found on her bedroom dresser after she was dead.
It has been preserved in 66 partial or complete manuscripts, and 85 printings in German.
Another partial manuscript has the Xiang'er (想爾) commentary, which had previously been lost.
On the basis of a partial manuscript an auction among different publishers for the rights started, with Hamish Hamilton being successful.