noun
- Plural of bolograph; documents or writings entirely in the handwriting of the person whose signature they bear.
Usage: Legal and archival term; Often used in authentication and historical document analysis
Examples
- The museum's collection includes several bolographs signed by the founding president.
- Experts authenticated the bolographs by comparing the handwriting with known samples.
- Legal disputes sometimes hinge on whether documents are genuine bolographs or copies.
- The archive carefully preserves these bolographs in climate-controlled storage.
- Historians value bolographs because they provide direct evidence of a person's own words and hand.