Amanuensis

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An amanuensis ( ə-MAN-yoo-EN-sis) (pl. amanuenses ə-MAN-yoo-EN-seez) or scribe is a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

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Image: Unknown miniaturist, Brussels Royal Library, MS 9278, fol. 10r, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.