A copyist is a person who makes written copies. The term's modern use is almost entirely confined to the music industry, in which copyists are mainly employed to produce parts for individual musicians from an orchestralscore. In the past, copyists worked by hand, though today the work is generally done using one of a number of proprietary specialist software packages (one of which is called Copyist). Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Orchestra at City Hall (Edmonton). ... Sheet music is written representation of music. ...
When such annotations by the scribe occur in a manuscript, then it is said that the manuscript was collated.
An inscription written at the end of a treatise (or a section of a treatise), in which the copyist records the date on which he completed the copy and sometimes also his name and in what town he was working.
They can be written by the copyist himself, but more often they are annotations made by later owners and readers.
Not to mention his answers to this or that difficulty, he appeals above all to the principle, that the original text of the Scriptures is the only one inspired and free from error.
Therefore one must determine if the text, in which the difficulties arise, has not been altered by the copyist.
Moreover, when the writers of the New Testament quoted the Old Testament, they did so not according to the letter but according to the spirit.