Sentence examples for scribal error from inspiring English sources

The name Mabinogion is derived from a scribal error and is an unjustified but convenient term for these anonymous tales.

The name Mabinogion derives from a scribal error and is an unjustified but convenient term for these anonymous tales.

Erasures and scrapings, a scribal error here, a jumbled foliation there, can tell us much about the scholarly disputes, patrons and politics of the times.

Still others, holding that the two men were contemporaries, regard the seventh year as a scribal error and believe that perhaps Ezra arrived during Nehemiah's second term as governor.

Names also changed by shortening (e.g., Los Angeles, from El Pueblo de la Reyna de los Angeles, "Town of the Queen of the Angels," the town named in honour of the Virgin Mary) and by scribal error (e.g., Pria in France, a misread medieval abbreviation of Pradaria, "Meadow").

One of these names is "rival of Gerðr"; however, this is probably a scribal error (see "Theories" section below).

It is the word of God, but that doesn't mean there haven't been scribal errors, or things that have come down to us in less than perfect form".

Kangxi read all the reports and memorandums presented to him, meticulously correcting even the smallest scribal errors, and he often boasted that he routinely took care of all the documents, even in wartime, when 300 400 arrived daily.

Belcher is working with Selamawit Mecca, an expert on Ethiopian female saints and an assistant professor of Ethiopian literature at Addis Ababa University, to clarify the meaning of the text, parts of which are confusing due most likely to scribal errors.

This means that parts of the text were confusing, probably due to scribal errors, and now, by comparing these different texts, we will be able to clarify a lot more.

In leading printing houses, proofreaders, steeped in Greek and Latin, just to keep their minds alert spoke among themselves only the language of the ancient text they were working on; they, as much as the famous scholars, rescued the classics from centuries of scribal errors.