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An autograph is a person's own handwriting or signature. The word autograph comes from Ancient Greek (αὐτός, autós, "self" and γράφω, gráphō, "write"), and can mean more specifically: [1] [2] a manuscript written by the author of its content. [1] [2] In this meaning the term autograph can often be used interchangeably with ...
An autograph or holograph is a manuscript or document written in its author's or composer's hand. The meaning of "autograph" as a document penned entirely by the author of its content (as opposed to a typeset document or one written by a copyist or scribe other than the author) overlaps with that of "holograph".
Autograph collecting is the practice of collecting autographs of famous persons. Some of the most popular categories of autograph subjects are politicians, military soldiers, athletes, movie stars, artists, social and religious leaders, scientists, astronauts, and authors.
An autograph book (also known as an autograph album, a memory album or friendship album) [1] is a book for collecting the autographs of others. Traditionally they were exchanged among friends, colleagues, and classmates to fill with poems , drawings, personal messages, small pieces of verse, and other mementos .
Signature of Benjamin Franklin. Signature of Empress Farah Pahlavi of Iran in Persian Handwriting.. The traditional function of a signature is to permanently affix to a document a person's uniquely personal, undeniable self-identification as physical evidence of that person's personal witness and certification of the content of all, or a specified part, of the document.
An autograph show (or, alternatively, autograph meeting, autograph signing or autograph convention) is an event where the public, mostly autograph collectors or fans of an attending celebrity, gather to collect autographs from someone famous who attends to meet fans and sign items for them.
If the manuscript contains the composer's handwriting it is called an autograph. Music manuscripts can contain musical notation as well as texts and images. There exists a wide variety of types from sketches and fragments, to compositional scores and presentation copies of musical works.
The album amicorum ('album of friends', friendship book) was an early form of the poetry book, the autograph book and the modern friendship book. It emerged during the Reformation period , during which it was popular to collect autographs from noted reformers.