noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb
excerption; manual copying; excerpt
Rare, formal term for copying or excerpting by hand. The noun form is more common than the verb; 手抄する is possible but very literary.
古い文献の手抄をとる作業は根気がいる。
The work of making manual excerpts from old documents requires patience.
彼
He manually copied and preserved the valuable manuscript.