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“Scribal Corruption” is a category for books that investigate how texts change as they are copied and transmitted by hand, highlighting the errors, alterations, and editorial interventions introduced by scribes across history. Titles in this category examine accidental mistakes (omissions, transpositions, misreadings), deliberate changes (harmonization, censorship, doctrinal or stylistic adjustments), and the consequences for meaning, authorship, and canon formation. They often present methods for detecting and evaluating variants—paleography, codicology, stemmatics, collation, apparatus criticus, and digital tools—and offer case studies from biblical, classical, medieval, Islamic, East Asian, and other manuscript traditions, including palimpsests and forgeries. Aimed at readers of textual criticism, philology, and book history, the category can include scholarly monographs, accessible overviews, and narrative works that show how scribal transmission reshaped influential texts.

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