Since they spent their time in monasteries, they used much of their time copying manuscripts.

Yet after leaving Basel, he had to start copying manuscripts and apprenticing within areas of law.

In 1806 they copied manuscripts of the topographer Robert Hawes.

Very little education or culture developed in the earlier centuries, with science and literature confined to Catholic monks who simply copied older manuscripts.

In early manuscript culture monks copied manuscripts by hand, mostly religious texts.

Nor was he a scribe who simply copied manuscripts like Ahmes.

This person is the writer himself, the monk whose business is to copy old manuscripts.

They passed through a scriptorium, where monks sat in rows at their easels, silently copying manuscripts.

She looked up scientific data for Einstein, suggested proofs, checked his calculations and copied notes and manuscripts.

Ancient scribes made errors or alterations when copying manuscripts by hand.