Cunningham, it should be admitted, in the contention that the Phoenicians figured poorly as copyists of Greek art (Western Civilisation, p.
In the absence of the printing-press, the demand for skilled writers and copyiststhroughout the country was enormous.
In mid- thirteenth century some Black Friars of Paris laboured to correct the text of the Latin Bible; and to enable copyists to restore the true text when transcribing, they drew up manuals, called Correctoria.
He persuaded Charles to send a number of copyists to York.
But involuntary errors of the copyists are insufficient to explain all the bewildering changes which disfigure many of the books of the Sacred Scriptures.
In later times such itacisms were far more rare in careful transcription, and the mediaeval copyists knew their native language too well to fall into the habit in this passage.
That reading of a passage is preferable which best suits the peculiar style, manner, and habits of thought of an author; it being the tendency of copyists to overlook the idiosyncrasies of the writer.
On the other hand, the more careful Cambridge scribe has overlooked, as the best of copyists might, 39 lines preserved in the Edinburgh version.
But copyists were only mortal; an author too might see cause to alter a MS.
Copyists have wrought havoc with the Hebrew text, but as the marginal note of our Revisers indicates, the sense may be restored from the Greek.
Plutarch and Claudius Ptolemy[88], and all thecopyists since their time, think that a loadstone smeared with garlick does not allure iron.
The textual critics restore the definite article which later copyists had dropped before the word Christ in verse 11.
The copyists have conformed our text, seemingly, to the latter passage.
Scholars, Imitators, andCopyists of the various masters, and a Classification of Subjects.
He collected books, and often took them in place of corn for tithes and dues, but he also produced books, for he kept copyists in his house.
The interpolations due to the ignorance or whims of copyists were remorselessly stricken out, and into the ritual, thus purified, was introduced the pomp customary at the court of Byzantium.
The copyists had introduced countless variations, but these acquired a fresh unity and unanimity from the very fact of their publication in such a form.
You will continually see bad copyists trying to imitate the Venetians, by daubing their colours about, and retouching, and finishing, and softening: when every touch and every added hue only lead them farther into chaos.
Even when a number of copyistswrote at the same time to dictation, it was a tedious process, requiring much time, and not very many would join in such a cooperative effort of Bible production.
It is true that the copyists were sometimes learned men; but their zeal in making corrections may have obscured the true text as much as the ignorance of the unlearned.
Copyists were careless, often wrote from dictation, and were liable to misunderstand.
Among the Romans, the transcribers or copyists were chiefly slaves, who were very valuable to their owners, on account of their capacity for this employment.
Copyists were much employed in the Roman Empire from the time of the Scipios until the irruption of the barbarians.
He has often sent the copyiststo Las Cases to read what he had himself been unable to decipher.
Napoleon indeed left a great deal for the copyists to do; he was their torment; his handwriting actually resembled hieroglyphics-- he often could not decipher it himself.
Bullions and Brace, two American copyists and plagiarists of Lennie, adopt opposite notions.
In consideration of the great authority of this grammarian, now backed by a score or two of copyists and modifiers, it may be expedient to be yet more explicit.
Hence his text became early, and very generally, corrupted, from transcribers and copyists leaving out what they naturally enough supposed to be redundancies, and supplying what they considered as deficiencies.
These he kept by him for four years, that he might transcribe them with his own hand, on account of the blunders of the copyistsin that age.
And such mistakes were made by the copyists of the Old Scriptures.
Such uncertainties the copyists encountered, and such mistakes they sometimes made.
Other differences have arisen from the habit of some of the copyists or owners of manuscripts of writing glosses, or brief explanatory notes, on the margin.
From eight o’clock in the morning until four o’clock in the afternoon faithful copyists labor in the gallery.
Many of these copyists spend their afternoons in sketching, thus establishing their originality and emancipating themselves from servile observance of other men’s methods.
The copyistshave made many changes throughout the original text.
It is strange, furthermore, that neither of these two ancient copies were used by the fifteenth century copyists to make the various copies distributed by them, but that an inferior copy of the Vatican Ms.
When he returned to the Hall of Velásquez, the assemblage had diminished; only the copyists remained bending over their canvases.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copyists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
