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Allograph

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A writing or signature made by one person for another.

When a principal gives his or her agent the power to pay creditors, the checks written by the agent are allographs for the principal.

An autograph is the opposite of an allo-graph.
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A sampling of topics turns up birth and death statements, colophon, letterforms or allographs, primitive codicology and palaeography, quire, scribal etiquette, and vignette.
Arabic manuscripts; a vademecum for readers by Reference & Research Book News
This includes derivatives such as chinesery, whose allograph chinoiserie recalls its French origin.
Chinese loanwords in the OED by De La Cruz-Cabanillas, Isabel / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Separate sections are devoted to editions of Ronsard's works--including all extant autograph and allograph manuscripts, partial and complete original editions, musical editions and settings, publications in collective volumes, critical editions, and translations into fifteen different languages--bibliographical studies, biographical studies, general studies, focused studies, and a catalogue of reviews of the most important books on Ronsard.
Pierre de Ronsard by Duval, Edwin M. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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