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Definition of Copyists
1. copyist [n] - See also: copyist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copyists
Literary usage of Copyists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore (1904)
"Among the professional copyists those who understood Greek took the highest ...
In the early stages of the Renaissance the professional copyists were few ..."
2. A Grammar of the New Testament Greek by Alexander Buttmann (1891)
"added by the copyists (as oui/, кал often were also) to avoid the asyndeton
displeasing to a Greek ear ; this has been done times without number in ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1901)
"... MA to the invention of printing, the work of multiplying books was carried on
by parchment-makers, binders, or, in the Chaucer-like phraseology copyists ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... admits that without this no one would ever have thought of the theory, which
has really no other support than the stupidity of medieval copyists. 2. ..."
5. The Museum, a Manual of the Housing and Care of Art Collections: A Manual of by Margaret Talbot Jackson (1917)
"... RULES FOR copyists AND PHOTOGRAPHERS The policy of a museum in regard to its
relations with copyists and photographers is a difficult one to form. ..."
6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"WHERE copyists USED TO WORK, CASTLE- DERMOTT ABBEY, KILDARE. these parchments
also are devoted to the study of medicine; for it appears to have been an ..."
7. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"... WHERE copyists USED TO WORK, CASTLE- DERMOTT ABBEY, KILDARE. these parchments
also are devoted to the study of medicine ; for it appears to have been an ..."
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