The famous orator Cicero said that the end of a sentence ought to be determined not by a stroke interposed by a copyist, but by the constraint of the rhythm.
The prince summoned a copyist on the following day, and two days afterwards Julien was the possessor of fifty-three carefully numbered love-letters intended for the most sublime and the most melancholy virtue.
In the 14th century, books were reproduced by copying, and so most handwritten books from that period are, in fact, not the original documents written by their authors, but copies made by professional copyists.