Meanings
plural antigraphs
- human sciencesA manuscript from which a copy (apograph) is made.
…once grouped the manuscripts into families, copied manuscripts can be discarded; only their antigraphs are considered, in order to perform the next step.
2010, Nadia Ambrosetti, The “Pervasive Imprecision” of Manuscript Tradition1 more example
Following 1 above, it has been tacitly assumed that any manuscript book in C or R, irrespective of any change of antigraph, was equal to a manuscript text with uniform features, unless produced by more than one scribe, in which case the various parts were given separate treatment.
1989, William Veder, Texts of Closed Tradition – The Key to the Manuscript Heritage of Old Rus’ - obsoleteA copy or transcript.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀντίγραφον“a transcribing”
- Latinantigraphum
- Englishantigraph
Borrowed from Latin antigraphum, from Ancient Greek ἀντίγραφον (antígraphon, “a transcribing”); compare French antigraphe.
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