Copyists of biblical manuscripts
took great care in going about their work.
On the question of copying errors, in the many and various manuscripts that remain today, a large number
have copyists
' errors.
Complete set of seven partbooks;
unidentified copyist, probably italian, probably early 17th century.
Copyist errors
are relatively few in number.
Ibn sa'd was much more than just a
mere copyist.
Copyist unknown; english, late 17th century.
A
later copyist
might have felt this is what the original author had intended when he saw " 169 years " before him.
Other sections of this work, partly in the hand of the
same copyist, are in mus.
In some cases these would have been done by
professional copyists
called scribes.
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