Scribe

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A scribe in the middle ages was a professional copyist, especially before the invention of automatic printing. This profession was typically taken up by Monks in medieval Christendom. They often copied texts of administrative or religious value, such as judicial or business related texts and manuscripts. The first scribes emerged in ancient Mesopotamia. Scribes were almost entirely eliminated as a professional grouping with the birth of the printing press.

Notable Scribes

• Ahmes, 15th dynasty Egyptian scribe
• Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif, a Moroccan jurist and scribe
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, 17th-century Irish scribe and Gaelic scholar
• Sîn-lēqi-unninni, a Mesopotamian priest and scholar thought to have compiled the best-preserved version of Gilgamesh