Assertion: manuscript's word | /r/HasProperty | supported by various examples
Facets:
value: to the middle ages
type: TEMPORAL
value: from antiquity
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In an article written by Edward Maunde Thompson, the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica mentions "a document signed by the person from whom it emanates" as another common meaning of the word "autograph", supported by various examples from antiquity to the Middle Ages when a document, usually written by a scribe different from the author, became "signed" or "autographed" by the person who attached his seal (= signum, origin of the word signature) to it.