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scribes

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Persons who inscribe or copy texts, especially those who transcribed, copied, and edited manuscripts before mechanical printing technology was developed.

Variations

Scribes, Babylonian

Scribes, Byzantine

Scribes, Egyptian

Scribes, Roman

Scribes, Jewish

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