I have been using the term "textus recepticus", to mean the original greek (NT) or hebrew (OT) documents. Wrongly as it turns out.

Is there a term for the original texts? One I can use correctly

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Eoghan
member,Thurso Baptist Church
Scotland

specialist subject: Creationist Genetics (Bottleneck effect of the Ark)
interests: holiness (practical theology)
member of Biblical Creation Society (available as a guest speaker in the far north of Scotland)

If by originals, you mean the very manuscripts written on by the apostles, then the term is autographs.

If by originals you simply mean the original language texts which have been passed down to us, the term is apographs (these also are referred to as the originals by our confession).

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Paul Korte
OPC
Flint, MI

They who perceive in themselves discoveries of the divine goodness, so full and absolutely perfect, and who make them the subject of earnest meditation, will never embrace new doctrines, by which the very grace they feel so powerfully in themselves is thrown into the shade. --John Calvin

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Yes, autographs. In discussing inerrancy for example, it is often pointed out that only the autographs are truly inerrant.

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Jim
1689 LBCF
Independent Bible Church
North Texas, USA

If you want to sound really spiffy you can call them the autographa, and pronounce it aw-TAW-gra-fa.

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Adam J. Myer
Slated for the Jan. 10th Chaplains Basic Officer Leadership Course
Estacada Christian Church
Sandy, Oregon

Soli Deo Gloria