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 (= , origin of the word "signature") to it.