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The Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer were penned by a scribe whose native language was Irish.
In the royal ateliers, book illustration involved the art of the scribe, calligrapher, painter and bookbinder.
John is the very witty and outspoken scribe from Down-under who contributes some road tests for our Automania column.
There were always a couple of them, with a scribe lurking unobtrusively in the background and taking notes in an indecipherable shorthand.
Maybe she was some sort of scribe, writing epics about their heroic journey?
Burgess's first love was music and the Manchester-born scribe did not plan on becoming a writer but aspired instead to being a composer.
Like all sites conceived as digital brochures, it has far too much text which includes an overly lavish encomium by a Sunday newspaper scribe.
To obtain the total of the eight reign durations, the scribe would have used the tallying method.
Since then, sightings of the puckish scribe have been rarer than those of the reclusive Barclay brothers.
To Web surfers, he came off as a quick-witted scribe who kept readers amused with tales of high-altitude nuttiness.
Perhaps the scribe was suddenly made mindful by a supervisor or a scriptorial policy to adhere more closely to the Latin.
They are all related to Joshua ibn Gaon, a scribe, Masorete, and decorator.
Furthermore, a comparison of the way in which crotchets and quavers are notated makes it likely that the same scribe copied both works.
Lay the pencil flat on one surface with the point resting on the other, and slide the pencil along to make the scribe.
The ancient Egyptians considered hamadryas baboons to be the sacred attendants of Thoth, the scribe to the gods.
In the case of the James ossuary, there would have indeed been room on the front, yet the scribe elected to carve the inscription on the back.
It's a fascinating potted history, following Moore's life and career from Northampton slum to Northampton scribe.
With Songkran descending upon us, the regular scribe and a few others decided to head bush.
At times, the plot twists sound as if they've been generated by a Hollywood scribe, a fact that amuses Koenig.
My scribe, Braintree, was in the bed-chamber, quietly awaiting the dictation of this week's Publisher's Message.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.
The work of the miniaturist and the scribe grew more and more delicate and exquisite in form, colour, and invention.
The lectionary mentioned on p. 120 was written and signed by a monastic scribe called Sifer Was.
As for the peddling-box, our scribe will tell of its fate in the following Chapter.
The first climax, however, is reached, and our scribe thinks it too sad for words.
It was not a soldier that was then required for Philip's exigency, but a scribe.
Where the correction is apparently by the original scribe, Bac indicates the original reading, and bpc the correction.
Consul churchward states with precision that the document was sold by a scribe for thirty-six dollars.
Yet, at the rebuilding of the temple, Ezra was a ready scribe in that lost writing.
The Ig is either a clerical error of the monkish scribe for y, or the g is a silent letter producing the quantity of the vowel.
The passage in question has all the appearance of an interpolation by some scribe.
Here recte is miswritten for recta, clearly because the scribe was still thinking of the latter syllable of the preceding sponte.
Schwerner's fussy scribe is a much reduced, comical version of these priestly hierophants.
The scribe at first wrote wyerldes, but the l is marked for expunction.
An obscure scribe in the Secretariat had overheard a few words of a certain conversation, and had caught a glimpse of a certain report.
The last clause is clearly an addition by the cartulary scribe.
They did not dare defy him, and had the scribe bring in the Book.
If so, the scribe of Mark's Gospel may be penning an old man's firsthand account of a lifechanging, perspective-altering, mountaintop experience.
He is somewhat urgently needed as a scribe by the State, for instance.
Anybody, even Mrs Scribe might come in, and the thought was more powerful than any sudorific in the pharmacopoeia.
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