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  2. Scribe - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Scriba (ancient Rome) - Wikipedia

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    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" in English) or bookseller (librarius). [3] In Rome the scribae worked out of the aerarium, the state treasury and government archive. They received a good salary, but could earn additional commissions ...

  4. List of ancient Egyptian scribes - Wikipedia

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    the Papyrus of Ani, or scribe Ani (a Book of the Dead) Chancellor Bay: for Siptah: started as "scribe and butler" A life of 'king's servant' and many duties; ordered killed before Siptah dies (in 1 year) a foreigner, and not buried in the tomb he had overseen (1 of 3) General Djehuty: important general for Thutmosis III: many titles Royal ...

  5. N-Town Plays - Wikipedia

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    The date "1468" appears in the hand of the major scribe at the end of the Purification play (f 100v). This, then, is the earliest possible date for the copying of the text. Spector has concluded on the basis of dialectal evidence that the plays cannot predate 1425 and on the basis of the watermarks on the paper that the paper used by the main ...

  6. 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.

  7. Adrienne Lecouvreur (play) - Wikipedia

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    Adrienne Lecouvreur (French pronunciation: [adʁijɛn ləkuvʁœʁ]) is a French tragic play written by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe. It portrays the life of the leading French actress of the eighteenth century Adrienne Lecouvreur and her mysterious death. It was produced April 14, 1849. [1]

  8. 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. Scriveners were people who made their living by writing or copying written material.

  9. List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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    Scribe: A scribe was a person who served as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of mechanical printing. [195] [196] Scribes have generally been displaced by photocopiers and printers. An exception is the sofer, a Jewish religious scribe. Tech-3: 20: Scrivener