Apograph

Quick meaning: Apograph is a noun meaning (textual criticism) A copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).

Meaning

(textual criticism) A copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).

Example Sentences

Moreover, this is not a holograph but an apograph, made by a scribe for the printers – you will note that both mayors write the same hand.

For both C and R, as well as for all other corpora of Slavic manuscripts, including I and L, it has always been tacitly assumed that the scribe did not merely copy, but verified the text of his apograph via his own pronunciation (externally or internally), or even wrote upon dictation.

Word Forms

• apographs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antigraph, authograph, echographia, archigrapheme, anaglyptography, apostrophy.

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