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  2. Scribe - Wikipedia

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    The scribe was a common job in medieval European towns during the 10th and 11th centuries. Many were employed at scriptoria owned by local schoolmasters or lords. These scribes worked under deadlines to complete commissioned works such as historic chronicles or poetry.

  3. Scrivener - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Amanuensis - Wikipedia

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    Sarcophagus relief of Valerius Petronianus, with his slave holding writing tablets (4th century AD). In ancient Rome, an amanuensis (Latin āmanuēnsis, “secretary”, from ab-, “from” + manus, “hand” [5]) was a slave or freedperson who provided literary and secretarial services such as taking dictation and perhaps assisting in composition.

  5. Skeletons reveal what life was like for elite scribes in ...

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    Scribes were high-status men with the ability to write and were part of the 1% of the population that was literate, according to the authors of a new study published Thursday in the journal ...

  6. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse. In modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechanical) sigla are the symbols used to indicate the source manuscript (e.g. variations in text between ...

  7. Scriba (ancient Rome) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    Cuneiform [note 1] is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. [3] The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. [4]

  9. The Satire of the Trades - Wikipedia

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    This ancient Egyptian scribe's palette is estimated to be from 1500-500 BCE. The Satire of the Trades is a "schoolboy text", meaning it was used to teach young scribes the values and tasks required for the profession. [8] Scribes in training were expected to memorize and inscribe passages from the text as a pedagogical method.