Copyist; writer (6)
I believe the answer is:
scribe
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">I believe this clue is a double definition.<br/ ><br/ >'<span class="explanation-format__original">copyist</span>' is the first definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that copyist can be written as scribe)</span><br/ ><br/ >'<span class="explanation-format__original">writer</span>' is the second definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(scribe is a kind of writer)</span><br/ ><br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for scribe that I've seen before include "One writing documents" , "Former document copier" , "One used to copy out documents" , "Document writer" , "Document copier (hist.)" .)