The manuscript from which another manuscript was copied.
- Amharic:አብንት
- Arabic:أصل
- Armenian:օրինակ
- French:exemplar; modéle
- German:Exemplar
- Italian:exemplar; modello
- Latin:exemplar
- Portuguese:exemplar; modelo
- Spanish:exemplar; modelo
Michelle Brown, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts (Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, c1994).
Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), 22-24.