What does antigraph mean?
Antigraph means (textual criticism) A manuscript from which a copy (apograph) is made..
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(textual criticism) A manuscript from which a copy (apograph) is made..
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.
…once grouped the manuscripts into families, copied manuscripts can be discarded; only their antigraphs are considered, in order to perform the next step.
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Antigraph means (textual criticism) A manuscript from which a copy (apograph) is made..
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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.
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