scribal

The Smithsonian article doesn't actually say why Falk and Wade believe the relevant words are a scribal error.

Libraries existed in Sumer, attached to scribal houses, temples, and palaces by the Early Dynastic Period (2900-2334 BCE).

Most other systems are very haphazard largely because all of this stuff evolved as scribal abbreviations.

It turns out that many printers had taken to adopting scribal abbreviations as ligatures in order to save ink and paper.

Paleographers have a whole catalog of scribal errors, which can be useful when trying to reconstruct a text from conflicting extant copies.

The point, though, is these texts were doomed when there ceased to be a scribal community that cared about them being copied.

Well in their defense a primer for fantastical stories makes for a more interesting animated movie than a historical examination of scribal practices.

Ancient Babylonian scribal schools were for a small elite—hardly universal childhood education.

Other kinds of scribal copying errors betray a lack of reading ability.

Wouldn't it technically be a scribal error since it predates typesetting?

These are nice examples of scribal abbreviations in Latin.

Was it heeded in and above scribal tradition?

It would include "scribal" errors like Apple's goto or = vs ==, and also low-level logical errors.

Students would then buy scribal copies as "course packets".

Wikipedia's own page on Roman type [0] says "Roman type was modelled from a European scribal manuscript style of the 15th century, based on the pairing of inscriptional capitals used in ancient Rome with Carolingian minuscules".