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Usage examples of copied.

It passed through many editions and was honored by being pirated by the Giunta, famous printer publishers in Florence, who even copied the famous Aldine mark of the Dolphin and Anchor.

It belonged to a Paduan, who copied each letter with such care that the type exactly matches the written characters.

And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day.

New Testament and the differences found in them, about scribes who copied scripture and sometimes changed it.

And since they had to be copied by hand, one at a time, slowly, painstakingly, most books were not mass produced.

Hermas says he could not distinguish between the syllables, he evidently means he could not read the text fluently but could recognize the letters, and so copied them one at a time.

The elderly woman comes to him again and asks whether he has yet handed over the book he copied to the church leaders.

Christian communities, in the Roman world at large, texts were typically copied either by professional scribes or by literate slaves who were assigned to do such work within a household.

For the moment, it is enough to know that the changes were made, and that they were made widely, especially in the first two hundred years in which the texts were being copied, when most of the copyists were amateurs.

It surely had mistakes of some kind, as did the copy from which it was copied, and the copy from which that copy was copied, and so on.

Christian texts were copied in whatever location they were written or taken to.

And then these translated texts were themselves copied by scribes in their locales.

This was the Bible for the Western church, itself copied and recopied many times over.

Moreover, books could be made far more rapidly: no longer did they need to be copied one letter at a time.

It appears that someone copied out the Greek text of the Epistles, and when he came to the passage in question, he translated the Latin text into Greek, giving the Johannine Comma in its familiar, theologically useful form.