For this he used old Pentateuchal manuscripts, from which he took much valuable material not found in other sources.
Bentley used also manuscripts: 51, 54, 60, 113, 440, 507, and 508.
I'm a scholar, I can use the books and manuscripts I gather in ways that others could not.
Bentley understood the necessity to use manuscripts if he were to reconstruct an older form than that apparent in Codex Alexandrinus.
While using medieval manuscripts as exemplars, many printers attempted to implant humanist values into the text.
Parker was an associate of Whitaker, who used his antiquarian and genealogical manuscripts for his Whalley.
In later years, however, some fiddlers use manuscripts as a kind of "second-hand" source, for refreshing their memories.
He used manuscripts: 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 7, 817.
(6) using his correspondence, manuscripts or other personal documents.
The closest is a compilation assembled for a Dutch missionary by a Buginese queen, using partial manuscripts.