miscopying

plural miscopyings

1. countableuncountableThe act of something being miscopied.

   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.

   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

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   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; […]

   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

   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.

   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

   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.

   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

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of miscopy