Scribe
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A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.
Portrait of the Scribe Mir 'Abd Allah Katib in the Company of a Youth Burnishing Paper (Mughal Empire, ca. 1602)
Neo-Sumerian clay tablet with 24 columns on the front and back listing the names of almost 20,000 temple workers (2094–2047 BCE)
Early New Kingdom statue commemorating the scribe Minnakht ("Strength of Min"), showing how ancient scribes worked seated on the floor with the papyrus on their lap
Scribe's palette with styluses and residues of colors, from the Tomb of Kha and Merit. Between 1425 and 1353 BC (New Kingdom of Egypt). Museo Egizio, Turin.
Copyist
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A copyist is a person who makes duplications of the same thing. The modern use of the term is mainly confined to music copyists, who are employed by the music industry to produce neat copies from a co
Scribe
…A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other…
Jean Miélot was the secretary, copyist and translator to Philip the Good.
Copyist at work in the Louvre (2009)