miscopying

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The 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.”

   “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; […]”

   “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.”

   “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.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of miscopy