[ noun ] someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts <noun.person>
Copyist \Cop"y*ist\, n. A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
They'd never be able to stock all of these. One or two nibs would drive them mad." Music copyist Harold Sim came in and bought 20 nibs. "I hope this will tide me over for a few years," he said.