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The term “scribe” in literature has been used in a variety of ways that reflect both its functional and symbolic roles. In many texts it denotes an official recorder or writer—for example, chronicling travels in historical accounts ([1], [2]) or recording decrees and administrative orders ([3], [4], [5]). At times the word is also employed more broadly to describe someone skilled in writing or a trusted messenger, as seen in folk tales where the scribe acts as an intermediary or advisor ([6], [7], [8]). Additionally, “Scribe” has sometimes been used as a proper name or a pseudonym for well-known writers and dramatists ([9], [10]), highlighting a dual legacy of the term as both a title of occupation and an artistic attribution. This breadth of usage emphasizes the enduring significance of the scribe as a guardian and transmitter of knowledge across various literary genres and historical contexts ([11], [12]).
  1. AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN
    — from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano
  2. AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN THE TRAVELS.
    — from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano
  3. 197 This decree of the Marshal the Scribe will enter in the acts of the General Confederation, and the Apparitor will proclaim it.
    — from Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
  4. He also made Seisan the scribe, and committed the command over the guards of his body to Benaiah; the son of Jehoiada.
    — from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
  5. Having no patrimony, he set out for Paris at an early age, to try his fortune as a public scribe.
    — from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
  6. “Then the black-coated scribe said, ‘I am sending this man away; see him safely off.’
    — from Korean folk tales : by Pang Im and Yuk Yi
  7. The scribe said, “I am afraid that there is no way for you to meet her alone, but if you would like to see even her face, I think I can manage it.
    — from Korean folk tales : by Pang Im and Yuk Yi
  8. “I know of no place,” said she, “unless it be at such and such a scribe’s home.”
    — from Korean folk tales : by Pang Im and Yuk Yi
  9. The reference is to a piece by Scribe (1791–1861).
    — from On Love by Stendhal
  10. Les --s , opéra en cinq actes, paroles de Scribe et d'E. Deschamps, musique de Meyerbeer (1836).
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  11. where is the scribe?
    — from The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
  12. Why, seeing that fate has appointed me to be ruler of an earthly paradise, did I prefer to bind myself in servitude as a scribe of lifeless documents?
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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