Scribe

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A person who inhabits the coveted ability to read and write with elegance, especially within the Renaissance Age.

scribe (or Scrivener) is an ancient profession, a person who could read and write. This usually indicated secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and history records for rulers such as kings, nobility, temples, and cities. Later the profession developed for example into public servants, journalists, accountants, and lawyers. However, present-day journalists and authors tend to be the most closest to the ancient profession.

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• Main : Worshipful Company of Scriveners, List of professions, Peer-to-peer, Elder , Sofer
• Scrivener
• People : Michael William Balfe, Muhammad, John Barbour, Ibn Warraq, Baruch, Sidney Rigdon, John Milton, Beowulf, Margery Kempe
• Other : Anglo-Norman language, Irish poetry, Uncial, Mail, Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener

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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.

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