miscellanist

1. not comparableHaving the characteristics of a miscellany.

   Punjab Notes and Queries […] was ethnographic and miscellanist in nature, but its organization was confused.

   2002, Sadhana Naithani, “To Tell a Tale Untold: Two Folklorists in Colonial India”, in Journal of Folklore Research, vol. 39, no. 2/3, p. 205

plural miscellanists

1. An author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.

   Leigh Hunt tried almost every conceivable kind of literature, including a historical novel. […] All this we may not unkindly brush away, and consider him first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as what can be best, though rather unphilosophically, called a miscellanist.

   1889, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, 5th series, vol. 66, p. 492

   2 more examples

   Professor Sadler relied heavily on a voluminous work (still unfinished, although some 60 volumes have already been published) by Tokutomi Iichiro, History of the Japanese People in Modern Times. Unfortunately, this Japanese journalist, a prolific writer and a miscellanist, is not accepted as a historian among scholars.

   1942, Yamato Ichihashi, "The Maker of Modern Japan by A. L. Sadler" (book review), Pacific Historical Review, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 89

   In Miscellaneous Reflections, however, Shaftesbury's approach underwent a significant change. Although the miscellanist persona's presence there is felt in a relatively small part of the work, his ironic celebration of the modern art of patchwork wit and his other manufactured ironies recall Swift's satiric ploys in A Tale of a Tub.

   1993, Richard B. Wolf, “Shaftesbury's Just Measure of Irony”, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, volume 33, number 2, page 582

   Synonyms: miscellanarian