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Handexemplar

English translation: personal copy or work copy

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German term or phrase:Handexemplar
English translation:personal copy or work copy
Entered by: Christine Lam

21:20 Jul 4, 2006
German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
German term or phrase: Handexemplar
Audio-Guide für Schloß Wernigerode

Der Raum in dem Sie nun stehen, trägt die Bezeichnung Neue Bibliothek. Im Jahre 1920 ließ Fürst Christian Ernst, der Sohn des Grafen Otto, durch das Berliner Büro Kimbel & Friedrichsen aus dem Raum die Neue Bibliothek erstellen. Hier wurden seine Handexemplare und besonders kostbare Bücher aus der ehemals Stolberg-Wernigeröder Hausbibliothek aufbewahrt
Christine Lam
Local time: 02:14
personal copy or author's copy
Explanation:
as per Muret Sanders.
Selected response from:

Parrot
Spain
Local time: 08:14
Grading comment
thank you both
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +1personal copy or author's copy
Parrot
2 +1working copy
Frosty


Discussion entries: 3





  

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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
working copy


Explanation:
Perhaps? -

Newsletter 6--November 1999
Dateiformat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML-Version
the standard English version could have no idea it was there. ... pencil notations indicate that this volume was originally his working copy (Handexemplar). ...
www.ku.edu/~maxkade/MKC1999b.pdf - Ähnliche Seiten

Frosty
Local time: 08:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  F Schultze (X): I believe you are right, Frosty.
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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
personal copy or author's copy


Explanation:
as per Muret Sanders.

Parrot
Spain
Local time: 08:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thank you both

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  F Schultze (X): From the contexts i have found, it is not necessarily the author's copy. As I say in my note, "personal copy" would fit well in Christine's context, but "work copy" is probably a more correct translation
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