miscopying

English

Noun

miscopying (countable and uncountable, plural miscopyings)

  1. The act of something being miscopied.
    • 1702 December 6 (Gregorian calendar), Mr. Broderick, quotee, “The Tryals of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell, and John Spurr, […]”, in A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and Proceedings upon Impeachments for High Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; […], volume 4, London: […] Timothy Goodwin, […], published 1719, →OCLC, page 681, column 1:
      The rectifying ſuch Miſentries, or Miſcopyings, are not Amendments of Faults in a Record, (for that faulty miſtaken Entry is not really the Record) but making true Entries of the Record.
    • 1749, “The Summary”, in An Essay on Atheism and Deism: or, Deism Prov’d to Be Worse than Atheism; […], London: […] H[enry] Carpenter, […], →OCLC, page 59:
      It is no reaſonable Objection to God’s revealed Religion, that Men differ about the Number of Books, that they receive for canonical, or apocryphal, or that there are Obliterations, or Miſcopyings, or Miſtranſlations, in ſome Things in them, or that above thirty Books are mentioned in the holy Scriptures that are loſt; […]
    • 1998, Helen Cooper, “Note on the Text”, in Thomas Malory, edited by Helen Cooper, Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World’s Classics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xxiii:
      Just occasionally there are muddles or miscopyings by the scribes (there were two working on the manuscript), where the obviously correct reading, such as supplying a missing negative or changing a name, is confirmed by [William] Caxton.
    • 2007, Philip S. Alexander, “The Language of Targum Lamentations”, in The Targum of Lamentations […] (The Aramaic Bible; 17B), Collegeville, Minn.: A Michael Glazier Book, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 14:
      The “Babylonian” recension of Tg. Lam. was, then, taken to the Yemen, where it was faithfully copied. In the process of transmission there it underwent minor modification, in addition to the usual hazards of miscopying, and in some mss the text was augmented by secondary expansions.

Verb

miscopying

  1. present participle and gerund of miscopy
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