different between chirograph vs chirography

English

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (kheirógraphos, “written with the hand”) ???? (kheír, “hand”) + ????? (gráph?, “write”).

chirograph (plural chirographs)

(law, historical) A kind of mediaeval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others.
(law, Catholicism) A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia.
(obsolete) The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine".
(Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

chiro- +? -graphy

chirography (usually uncountable, plural chirographies)

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