copists

Also in this way many texts were preserved with less information added by copists, which means a lot for coneisseurs!

How did the invention of the printing press help change the world in the renaissance? « World Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009

[30] But even in Ibn-Khaldūn's day few Islamic thinkers were doing original work, and after him copists and encyclopedists dominated.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009