Autograph Terms & Abbreviations – Glossary

Glossary of Autograph Abbreviations & Terms

AC: Autograph Card (unsigned handwritten card or message on printed greeting card)

AD: Autograph Document (hand-written by the author, but not signed)

ADS: Autograph Document Signed (written and signed by same individual)

AES: Autograph Endorsement Signed (the endorsement on another person’s letter or document is entirely in the hand of the author who signed the endorsement)

AL: Autograph Letter (hand-written by the author, but not signed)

ALS: Autograph Letter Signed (hand-written and signed by same individual)

AMs: Autograph Manuscript (hand-written; such as the draft of a play, research paper or music sheet)

AMsS: Autograph Manuscript Signed (hand-written and signed by same individual)

AMusQs: Autograph Musical Quotation Signed (hand-written and signed by same individual)

AN: Autograph Note (much shorter than a letter)

ANS: Autograph Note Signed (hand-written and signed by same individual)

AQS: Autograph Quote Signed (hand-written and signed by same individual; poem verse, sentence, or bar-of-music)

DS: Document Signed (printed, or while hand-written by another, is signed by the author)

LS: Letter Signed (hand-written by someone else, but signed by the author)

MSs: Manuscript signed (text in the hand of another person; signature in the hand of the author)

PS: Photograph Signed or Postcard Signed

SP: Signed Photograph

TCS: Typed Card Signed (signed typed greeting card)

TDS: Typed Document Signed (signature in the hand of the author)

TL: Typewritten Letter (mechanically reproduced, such as mimeographed, offset, ditto, diazo, including letters signed with rubber stamps, mimeograph, or any other artificial means of reproducing the author’s signature)

TLS: Typed Letter Signed

TMsS: typed manuscript signed (signature in the hand of the author)

TNS: Typed Note Signed

Information courtesy of thefreedictionary.com November 2006

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