copyist
Medieval text duplicator
A copyist is someone who copies written or printed material, especially manuscripts or music scores.
Before modern printing and reproduction, copyists preserved texts by hand-copying them.
In music, a copyist prepares individual parts from a composer's score for performers.
The word can also mean an imitator, often dismissively: He's merely a copyist, not an original artist.
Original text before publication
- quillFeather used for writing
- parchmentTreated hide for manuscripts
- scrollWound document of parchment
- scriptoriumMonastery manuscript workshop
calligraphy · inkwell · vellum · codex · folio · illuminated · palimpsest · papyrus
Person recording spoken words
- typistOne who keyboards
- court reporterTranscriber of legal proceedings
- transcriptionistOne who converts audio to text
- notetakerOne who records information
shorthand · dictation · verbatim · transcribe · recording · minutes · captioner · subtitler
Faithful scaled reproduction
- duplicateExact replica of original
- facsimileExact reproduction of original
- reproductionCopying or procreation
- counterfeitFraudulent imitation
forgery · clone · copycat · knockoff · fake · simulacrum · doppelganger · imitation
Degree of correctness
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
- exactnessCorrectness in every detail
- meticulousnessExtreme carefulness in details
- faithfulnessDevoted loyalty maintained
diligence · carefulness · thoroughness · exactitude · scrupulousness · detail · perfectionism · conscientiousness
Provision of light
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
- gildingApplying decorative gold coating
- miniatureReduced-scale representation
- decoratedMade more visually appealing
flourish · rubric · border · marginalia · uncial · gothic · blackletter · majuscule
manuscript
Original text before publication
scriptorium · calligraphy · inkwell · vellum · codex · folio · illuminated · palimpsest · papyrus · inkhorn
stenographer
Person recording spoken words
- typistOne who keyboards
- court reporterTranscriber of legal proceedings
- transcriptionistOne who converts audio to text
notetaker · shorthand · dictation · verbatim · transcribe · recording · minutes · captioner · subtitler · deposition
replica
Faithful scaled reproduction
- duplicateExact replica of original
- facsimileExact reproduction of original
- reproductionCopying or procreation
counterfeit · forgery · clone · copycat · knockoff · fake · simulacrum · doppelganger · imitation · emulation
accuracy
Degree of correctness
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
- exactnessCorrectness in every detail
- meticulousnessExtreme carefulness in details
faithfulness · diligence · carefulness · thoroughness · exactitude · scrupulousness · detail · perfectionism · conscientiousness · rigor
illumination
Provision of light
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
- gildingApplying decorative gold coating
- miniatureReduced-scale representation
decorated · flourish · rubric · border · marginalia · uncial · gothic · blackletter · majuscule · minuscule
- Imitatorsimitator, mimic, copycat, impersonator, clone
- office jobsmanager, office clerk, analyst, receptionist, administrative assistant
- Old Jobsblacksmith, farrier, wheelwright, chandler, apothecary
- medieval learningmedieval universities, trivium, scholasticism, liberal arts, monastery
- scribesscribe, scrivener, amanuensis, transcriber, penman
- transcribersscribe, stenographer, court reporter, amanuensis, captioner
copyistinnovator
Creator of new methods
trailblazer · pioneer · groundbreaker · revolutionary · trendsetter
copyistoriginal thinker
Someone generating novel concepts
visionary · creative genius · auteur · iconoclast · groundbreaker
- copying and pastingDuplicating content between locations
- copying error
- carbon copyingTransferring text to duplicate sheets
- copying paperSheets for reproduction machines
- digital copyingElectronic reproduction of content
- unauthorized copyingDuplication without permission