Editing Autograph (section)

{{Short description|Personal signature}}
{{Distinguish|Signature|Audograph}}
{{About|<!--autograph as manuscripts written by their authors and celebrity's signatures-->|autograph as manuscript written by its author|Autograph (manuscript)|collecting of autographs|Autograph collecting|other uses}}
[[File:B-a-c-h Reger.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|"[[B-A-C-H]] is beginning and end of all music", signed autograph document by [[Max Reger]] (dated 7 May 1912)]]An '''autograph''' is a person's own [[handwriting]] or [[signature]]. The word ''autograph'' comes from [[Ancient Greek]] ({{lang|grc|[[wikt:αὐτός|αὐτός]]}}, ''autós'', "self" and {{lang|grc|[[wikt:γράφω|γράφω]]}}, ''gráphō'', "write"), and can mean more specifically:<ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Autographs|first=Edward Maunde|last=Thompson|volume=3|pages=45–47}}</ref><ref name="Webster's">[[Philip Babcock Gove|Gove, Philip B.]] (ed.), 1981. ''[[Webster's Third New International Dictionary]]'', p.&nbsp;147. {{ISBN|0-87779-206-2}}</ref>
* a [[manuscript]] written by the author of its content.<ref name="EB1911" /><ref name="Webster's" /> In this meaning the term ''autograph'' can often be used interchangeably with [[holograph]].<ref name="EB1911" /><ref name="Tomita">{{cite book |last1=Tomita |first1=Yo |date=2016 |chapter=Autographs, Copies and Original Manuscripts |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCklDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52 |editor1-last=Leaver |editor1-first=Robin A. |title=The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCklDwAAQBAJ |publisher=Taylor & Francis |pages=52–54 |isbn=9781315452807 }}</ref>
* a celebrity's handwritten [[signature]].<ref name="Webster's" /> [[Autograph collecting]] is the activity of collecting such autographs.<ref name="EB1911" />