scribae
Sanguis Episcopi vel excelsi Principis, vel Scribæ, qui ad
terram effunditur, etc. Omnis qui ausus fuerit ea quæ sunt Regis, vel Episcopi, aut
Scribæ furari, aut rapere, aut aliquid in eos committere, parvipendens despicere,
vii. ancillarum pretium reddat, aut vii. annis pœniteat cum
Episcopo vel Scriba.
Factus ibidem Scriba ejus
(Guillelmi Bastardi) pro libito totam comitis curiam ad nonnullorum
invidiam regebam, quosque volui humiliabam et quos volui exaltabam. Notit.
Placit. in Abbrev. Placit. pag. 82. ann. 13. Johann. reg. Angl. Northt. rot. 5 :
Henricus rex avus dedit... ecclesiam de Nessinton... sicut Leningus Scriptor
regis unquam melius et honorabilius tenuit. Vide Capellani 1.
De Scribis hoc prospeximus, ut qui chartam scripserit, sive ad
Legem Langobardorum, quæ apertissima, et pene omnibus nota est, sive ad Legem Romanorum,
non aliter faciant, nisi quomodo in illis Legibus continetur. Adde (“writers,” from scribere). The highest class among the inferior paid officials at Rome. (See apparitores.) They did not perform ordinary writers' services, which were usually assigned to slaves, but occupied the position of clerks, registrars, accountants, and secretaries. Of special importance were the scribae quaestorii attached to the tribuni aerarii. They formed three commissions of ten members each, and kept the accounts of the treasury. Two of their number were also attached to each provincial quaestor as accountants. The scribae also of the different aediles and tribunes appear to have formed a commission of ten members, while those taken from among them by the consuls, praetors, and censors seem to have been employed only during their term of office. The pontifices also had their scribae. See Mommsen, Röm. Staatsrecht, i. 331-339 (3d ed.); and for the Greek scribes, see grammateus; notae.