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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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as secretarial and administrative duties such as the taking of dictation and keeping of business, judicial ...
A scrivener (or scribe) was a person who, before the advent of compulsory education, could read and write or who wrote letters as well as court and legal documents.
A similar term, Handlanger, exists in German and Dutch.In current times, in both Dutch and German its negative connotation of an unscrupulous, low person acting as criminal assistant prevails whereas the original use of this term for an unskilled and possibly also illiterate person assisting, in the literal sense of lending a hand at construction works has become rather rare.
Trithemius addresses the competing technology when he writes, "The printed book is made of paper and, like paper, will quickly disappear. But the scribe working with parchment ensures lasting remembrance for himself and for his text". [39] Trithemius also believes that there are works that are not being printed but are worth being copied. [40]
The public scribes were the highest in rank of the four prestigious occupational grades (decuriae) among the apparitores, the attendants of the magistrates who were paid from the state treasury. [2] The word scriba might also refer to a man who was a private secretary, but should be distinguished from a copyist (who might be called a " scribe ...
A few years and a move to Los Angeles later, Salerno was developing projects for Steven Spielberg and Sylvester Stallone; his first writing credit, at 24, was on “Armageddon,” the highest ...
Ancient Near Eastern scribes (2 C, 7 P) T. Thoth (1 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Scribes" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
A sofer at work, Ein Bokek, Israel A sofer sews together the pieces of parchment A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Hebrew: סופר סת״ם, "scribe"; plural soferim, סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three terms) and other religious writings.