SuStel:
In English, manuscript can mean a handwritten text, as opposed to a typescript, or it can mean any text by an author prior to publication.
Interesting; I didn't know that the English "manuscript" can include too the "any text by an author prior to publication" meaning. Being influenced by Greek, I thought of the "manuscript" as a handwritten text on a paper, scroll, parchment, etc.. SuStel:
I don't think we're told which meaning ghItlh has.
I think that the noun {ghItlh} has the meaning of "handwritten text on a paper, scroll, parchment", because of the sentence {ghItlh vIghItlhta'bogh DalaD'a'?}. Since the verb {ghItlh} means "engrave, incise, mark (upon), write", then when this verb has the noun {ghItlh} as an object, then seemingly/apparently the noun {ghItlh} must be something physical (e.g. paper, scroll, parchment, etc..). I'd understand the noun {ghItlh} as something referring to the text, if the above Ca'Non sentence was instead {ghItlh vIqonta'bogh DalaD'a'?}. On the other hand though, one could say that in the {ghItlh vIghItlhta'bogh DalaD'a'?} the listener is asked to read the text, not the physical medium on which the text is written. So go figure.. -- Dana'an https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/ Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ