Manuscript maps are hand-drawn or hand-painted maps. Before the invention of printing, there was no other possibility to produce maps and until the mid-16th century, manuscript maps outnumbered their printed counterparts. Hand-drawn templates for maps that were reproduced later using the printing method are also considered manuscript maps. Other than by artists, manuscript maps are barely produced nowadays.
Picture: «Dess Freyambts Quartiers, samt anderer Quartieren […]», Hans-Conrad Gyger, cop. Johann Friedrich Meiss, 1735, e-manuscripta