General term for a Xerox machine or a medieval transcriber
.... when my working definition of transcription (the replication, letter-by-
letter, .... history of transcription practices that extends into the medieval era, ... the 
text was based on a transcribed copy, made in Boston, of a copy... [DOC] [TLE] 10 Manuscript Description - The TEI Guidelines [PAR] objectType contains a word or phrase describing the type of object being referred 
to.