The phrase "antique texts" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to written materials that are very old or ancient, such as documents, manuscripts, or books. For example, you could say: "The archaeologist discovered a wealth of antique texts from the ancient civilization."
Italic script, in calligraphy, script developed by the Italian humanists about 1400 from antique Latin texts and inscriptions.
Then came the Renaissance and the rediscovery of antique scientific texts, many of which had been preserved and translated by Islamic scholars, and a vibrant new era of research began.
It is a method that reveals information and knowledge that, unlike, say, ancient, antique, antiquated and inadequate information and knowledge revealed in "sacred texts," are revelations that beg to be questioned, challenged, and tested.
Her mother and father founded and operate Science Heritage Limited in Chicago, which reproduces antiquarian texts and antique medical instruments related to the evolution of medicine.
It is perhaps appreciated best when sampled along with Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (rev. ed. 1936), an antique but accurate translation, with parallel text.
One of them even tells fortunes by tossing fake antique coins and consulting a Taoist text.
CONCERTS IN TOWN (LE) POISSON ROUGE Max Richter is an imaginative young British composer who draws plaintive lines of instrumental lyricism against a background of spoken text and a range of antique electronic sounds — a kind of emo Annie Gosfield.
Even the oldest texts we know – which are temple lists from antique cities in Mesopotamia – can be characterized by a certain significance, i.e. by the aim of demonstration.
For instance, we learn from a wall text that "royal jewels from the Mughal Court" inspired "Antique Revival Necklace," circa 1905, one of the most spectacular objects in the exhibition.
