Possessives

• error: One is the establishment of the original text on the basis of the many later manuscripts with their frequent copyists ' errors.

Preposition: of

• manuscript: The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that the copyists of biblical manuscripts took great care in going about their work.

Converse of object

• have: On the question of copying errors, in the many and various manuscripts that remain today, a large number have copyists ' errors.

Adjective modifier

• unidentified: Complete set of seven partbooks; unidentified copyist, probably Italian, probably early 17th century.

• mere: Ibn Sa'd was much more than just a mere copyist.

• late: A later copyist might have felt this is what the original author had intended when he saw " 169 years " before him.

• same: Other sections of this work, partly in the hand of the same copyist, are in Mus.

• professional: In some cases these would have been done by professional copyists called scribes.

Modifies a noun

• error: Third, these copyist errors are relatively few in number.

• unknown: Score, copyist unknown; English, late 17th century.