copyist

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The Paris in which Copyist Dumas soon became an author was an astonishing city of high living, wild revelry and the cancan.

From Time Magazine Archive

But while many a bank clerk was copying letters perfunctorily, wearily, Copyist Alexander was studying and understanding the letters that flowed from his pen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hitherto the tedious, uncertain, and expensive mode of multiplying books by the hand of the Copyist, had principally confined the treasures of learning to Monasteries,14-* or to persons of rank and fortune.

From The Author's Printing and Publishing Assistant Comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing; Preparation and Calculation of Manuscripts; Choice of Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, Advertising, &c.; with an Exemplification and Description of the Typographical Marks Used in the Correction of the Press by Saunders, Frederick

Being reduced to the utmost Misery, he entered into the Service of a Composer, as a Copyist, where he made use of the Opportunity of learning the Rules of Composition, and became a good Proficient.

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest

This notion, viz. that it is within the province of a Copyist to interpret the original before him, clearly lies at the root of many a so-called “various reading.”

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William