How To Use Copyist In A Sentence
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These were Realists and not mere copyists.
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Apart from the apparently Tuscan copyist, also the 6-line system, typical for Italian trecento repertoire, which is used throughout the manuscript points at an origin in Italy, even maybe in Florence.
Archive 2009-04-01
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You are reduced to taking the worms and moths into your confidence; their activity is your sole clue to the value of a book; as to the accuracy and fidelity of the copyist, that is quite beyond you.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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He laid the foundations of a huge fortune working as a copyist and restorer of antique statues for the tourist market.
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Although she had been a teacher, when the Civil War started, she was one of a handful of women employed by the US government as a copyist in the US Patent Office in Washington.
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Weather helps fakers, or, as I decided we should start labelling ourselves, reproducers and copyists.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Their copyist also annotated the printed pages of the partbooks in a neat, careful hand, correcting some of its many misprints.
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Modifying the medium does not insulate the copyist, and a copy of the overall pattern or ‘look and feel’ of the work has also been held as an infringement.
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The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about this guy.
The Mandelbrot Monk
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Without them we will be shorthanded, and we can always use a skilled copyist.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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The carelessness of copyists, the use of "sigla", contractions for proper names, and the frequency of transcription, led naturally to much confusion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Sometimes the copyist of the chartulary reproduced the original document with literary exactness.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The modern quotations and the pièces de circonstance by the editors or copyists of the Compilation. 127
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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When Chris Evans and Oasis hit their peaks in the summer of Britpop, 1996, they spawned a wealth of imitators and copyists.
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Hagiographa" (writings held by the ancient Hebrews as less sacred and authoritative than either the "Law" or the "Prophets"), and, in consequence, copyists felt naturally less bound to transcribe its text with scrupulous accuracy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Apprenticeship was useful to everybody: to the clerks, who picked up some knowledge of law, at least by osmosis; and to the lawyers, who in the days before telephones, typewriters, word processors, Xerox machines and the like needed copyists and legmen badly.
A History of American Law
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Whilst, like many currently, they are heavily indebted to the post punk sounds of groups such as Gang Of Four or NYC's Mars, they do it with their own verve and fire rather than be mere copyists.
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In each monastery there was a special hall, called the "scriptorium", reserved for the labours of the copyists.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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For the composer, arranger or copyist it covers every imaginable aspect of notation.
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a silly and ridiculous orator, but should find fault with his voice, and chide him for injuring his throat by drinking cold water; or like a person bidden to read some wretched composition, who should merely find fault with the thickness of the paper, and call the copyist a dirty and careless fellow.
Plutarch's Morals
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The variations presented by the three existing copies prove that the original was in the primitive mode of writing called the hieratic, a character which must have already become difficult to decipher in the eighth century B.C., as the copyists have differed as to the interpretation to be given to certain signs, and in other cases have simply reproduced exactly the forms of such as they did not understand.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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He, it transpires, was formerly the friend of the composer's copyist, who in turn discovered the journal describing the South Sea islanders while working for the composer.
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The writer of C was a mechanical copyist and not at home in English, consequently he reproduces X with tolerable accuracy.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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But unlike Moore and von Moritz, Sofa Surfers are not mere copyists.
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Peter Cooper, the great philanthropist and greenbacker, it might have been expected that Mr. Hewitt would have been somewhat a copyist of Mr. Cooper's ideas on finance and philanthropy, but Mr. Hewitt is sui generis.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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The title of the thirty-third has probably been omitted by some copyist; the ninth and tenth in some old Hebrew copies are written as one psalm, and there is an acrostical arrangement which shows that they really belong together.
Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
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A copyist relies on imitation to ply his craft, but a great designer can evoke a much more powerful response through invention.
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Cantillon employed clerks in his bank - professional copyists and document preparers - who could have made copies in their spare time.
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Music copyists have the often thankless job of transcribing the composer's score and ongoing edits to new playable scores.
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Masten points to the collaborative nature of texts produced by the Elizabethan theatre, combining the work of several writers with revisions by copyists and others, not to mention improvisations by actors.
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He was much favoured by the king, who directed that all his grand motets should be copied by the court copyists.
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The text was corrupted by careless copyists.
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The Strokes are, it is said, mere New Wave copyists.
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Nick Cave is also a clear influence, but Sons and Daughters are no mere copyists.
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After the regent comes the theologian, whom it has long been usual to select from the Society of Jesus; then come the datary, the canonist, the corrector, the sealer (sigillatore), and some copyists, besides a secretary, a surrogate (sostituto), and an archivist.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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A copyist who believed in the authority of what he was copying (or of the abbot for whom he was working!) is likely to have been more careful.
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The mention of her shows that the writer of the tale or the copyist was a
Arabian nights. English
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The earlier copyist leaves off the first instance of the epithet, creating an ambiguity that a Christian could only read as referring to James the Jerusalem pillar, which reading a second scribe made explicit, or added as marginalia that was subsequently incorporated into the text, a well-attested source of interpolated material.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels
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The mention of her shows that the writer of the tale or the copyist was a Cairene: Abd al-Kadir is world-known: not so the “Sitt.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It is easy, I think, to imagine this band being a group of mere copyists - a page from Talking Heads here, a page from Fred Wesley there - but they manage to escape these charges on what I see as sheer ferocity.
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Our remarks have hitherto applied to the monastic scribes alone; but it is necessary here to speak of the secular copyists, who were an important class during the middle ages, and supplied the functions of the bibliopole of the ancients.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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He returned to Macao, where he painted English nabobs and Chinese officials, employing Chinese assistants as copyists, and made thousands of further drawings.
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I do note, however, that this remix deflects any criticism that Lali Puna are mere slavish Two Lone Swordsmen copyists.
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The copyist records the date he completed making the copy, also 1373, and the place in which he made the copy which is Mount Qasyun in Damascus, Syria.
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They were note perfect but not mere copyists, they were re-creating the feeling of the music as well as the sound.
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In the former sense, the paleographer must know the whole process of manuscript formation from the view of the copyist himself.
Archive 2006-09-01
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Ledoux was no mere copyist even when he applied conventional details.
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Purcell was appointed "copyist" of Westminster Abbey, whatever post that may have been.
Purcell
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Usually, however, they had a large common room called the scriptorium, where either the copyist and illuminator worked separately and each on his own account, or where a number of copyists awaited with pen and parchment the dictation by one of the fraternity of some work of which a number of copies had to be made.
Illuminated Manuscripts
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None of its pastiches or copyists has ever rivaled the impact of the originals.
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The Cainan difference is not an error in the original autographs of Scripture, but one of the extremely few copyist's errors in the manuscripts available today.
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Cantillon employed clerks in his bank - professional copyists and document preparers - who could have made copies in their spare time.
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Eighteenth-century miniaturists were part of an industry of copyists who provided full-scale replicas for a range of residences and official sites or reduced life-size portraits to handy pocket-size miniatures.
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He is no mere copyist though, as he manages to create a sound all his own, rooted entirely in artistry.
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The Chinese painters were meticulous copyists of the bookplates, drawings, or watercolors of arms provided them.
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It of course took quite some months to copy a book, but a skilled copyist could manage a document much more quickly.
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The inclusion of so many annotations does not sit easily with the view that these books were commissioned from professional copyists.
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This painting is by a copyist.
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At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
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Their best ideas were all nicked, but sharp songwriting and a fantastic image elevated them beyond mere copyists.
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Many who were less talented at writing entered the world of publishing as editors, calligraphers, copyists, or proofreaders.
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Any one interested in hearing of our progress -- or arrest, may write to my Turner copyist, Mr. Ward: [BO] and, in the meantime, they can help my designs for art education best by making these Turner copies more generally known; and by determining, when they travel, to spend what sums they have at their disposal, not in fady photography, but in the encouragement of any good _water-color_ and
Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
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Europe was ransacked for copies of the long unused Latin classics and copyists multiplied them.
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Their copyist also annotated the printed pages of the partbooks in a neat, careful hand, correcting some of its many misprints.
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Sisman quotes a note of his to an admirer: "I ought to sit, night and day, in the Bodleian library or the Public Record Office, 'with learned dust besprent' ... wearing an eye-shade over my nose and munching a periodic dry bun, in order, by my copying of earlier copyists, to earn my place in some future Dunciad.
In praise of losers
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In the monastery all such labour was gratuitous, that is, the copyist received no pecuniary remuneration, only his food and lodging.
Illuminated Manuscripts
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It is possible to suspect that at some stage a copyist or editor misread ‘ease’ as ‘cure’ (easy to do, in fact, in Coleridge's hand).
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Apart from this I had had twenty-five copies made of the scores of both these operas by means of the so-called autographic transfer process, although only from the writing of the copyists.
My Life — Volume 1
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It has to be because he is a copyist, that is the word.
Valfierno
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Beyond this, except by the rather violent hypothesis of copyist misdeeds above referred to, [196] nobody has been able to get further in a generalisation of the metre than that the normal form is an eight and six (better a seven and seven) "fourteener," trochaically cadenced, but admitting contraction and extension with a liberality elsewhere unparalleled.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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There Lady Cheverel took singing lessons from a teacher who recommended that she hire a manuscript copyist, one Sarti.
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Berns studied classical piano as a child, and worked as a record salesman, music copyist and session pianist in his teens and twenties.
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Parker himself was a tiny, mercurial gent who came on like a cross between a young Dylan and a young Morrison, but he was an individual talent rather than a mere copyist, and a very strong songwriter.
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As soon as the man of genius has made a new application of any word in the language, copyists are not wanting to apply it, very malapropos, in twenty places, without giving the inventor any credit.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The recipes probably come from many different sources, some no doubt inserted by cooks and copyists who worked with earlier versions of the text.
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Schöffer was a copyist and calligrapher, who used his skills in copying manuscripts to design, compose, and set the printed text.
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Is a sublime copyist of great artists a great artist?
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But the perceived dichotomy in styles may simply signal that the forger was an inexpert copyist or that the effect results from the vagaries of stone carving.
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Since their earliest days, some of the hipper and holier-than-thou critics in New York have dismissed Blonde Redhead (named after a song by NYC's No Wave Gods' DNA, fact fans) as a mere bunch of Sonic Youth copyists.
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Besides the difference that popularizes degree, definitive inadequacy also is to restrict pay treasure copyist people one big handicap.
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It would be easy to dismiss this six-piece Glasgow band as mere Belle And Sebastian copyists.
