antigraphとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

antigraph (plural antigraphs)

1. (textual criticism) A manuscript from which a copy (apograph) is made.
   • 1989, William Veder, Texts of Closed Tradition – The Key to the Manuscript Heritage of Old Rus’:

     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.

   • 2010, Nadia Ambrosetti, The “Pervasive Imprecision” of Manuscript Tradition:

     …once grouped the manuscripts into families, copied manuscripts can be discarded; only their antigraphs are considered, in order to perform the next step.

2. (obsolete) A copy or transcript.