copyist:
(plural: ‘copyists‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound — for the right pronunciation of copyist, please click here)
a medieval copyist at work
a person who makes written copies of some text;
a scribe;
a copier;
a transcriber — a person who makes a spoken word/speech into written text;
a person who rewrites a written text in another language;
a person who copies/imitates others,
a music copyist
Ibn Sa’d, the great Sunni Muslim scholar believed to have lived in Baghdad in the 9th century, was not just a copyist but a scholarly writer who wrote The Book of The Major Classes.
Though copyists took great care in making copies of the Bible, some fanatics believe that some of the inconsistencies in the scriptures are the result of copyist errors or misinterpretations.
Some people argue that scribes were professional copyists at the royal courts, and copyists were mostly religious people, monks, who made the copies of religious texts by hand.
