antigraph

noun

1. 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.

2. A copy or transcript.

   obsolete

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin antigraphum, from Ancient Greek ἀντίγραφον (antígraphon, “a transcribing”); compare French antigraphe.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry antigraph (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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