What is "mistranscribed"

Usage examples of "mistranscribed".

Leman Street could be mistranscribed as 86, but how do you confuse Kosminski and Cohen?

Of course, his own basically realistic mind insisted, who was to say thatwith all of the vicissitudes of the intervening times, the plagues, the wars, the copyings and recopyings that had taken place over the past timesome records had not been lost, others mistranscribed or deliberately altered for diverse reasons that no one now living would ever know or understand.