Script differences in the shapes of certain signs indicate that the cylinders were written by different scribes.

Five different scribes can be identified for the entries up to 1054, after which it appears to have been worked on at intervals.

Some parts of the manuscript were written in different time by different scribes.

They were based on the same text while being created by many different scribes.

Copies of the full text of the Scotichronicon, by different scribes, still exist.

The papyrus also shows evidence of being written by two different scribes in that the handwriting changes.

The writing of the text itself appears to be the work of at least three different scribes.

John perhaps employed different scribes for his several works who dictated his words.

The codex was written by six different scribes using both sides.

It was written by several different scribes, at a date no later than 1032.