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Nonetheless, your resident Latin censor—dash it all—must have been dozing when he allowed a certain lapsus calami aka “slip of the pen” to pass his watchful eye.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Nonetheless, your resident Latin censor—dash it all—must have been dozing when he allowed a certain lapsus calami aka “slip of the pen” to pass his watchful eye.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Thanks very much indeed to the vigilant pair who pointed out my lapsus calami I can't dignify it with the phrase 'deliberate error'! replacing Birds with Clouds...

Et tu Brute? 2006

Nephelokokkygia, from Aristophanes' Birds -a simple lapsus calami, "niente di importante"

Et tu Brute? 2006

Farther along they spied calami, adversi, frail, and pomposi, which were worse, so they gave up on their search for anything better.

Faun & Games Anthony, Piers 1997

"Mycenas" is of course a lapsus calami for "Maecenas" ( "Mecenas" in the original), which I unaccountably failed to correct, and which a puzzled American editor or printer has mistakenly changed to "Midas."

The Joke Stallybrass, Oliver 1970

No earlier authentic evidence than this exists, though a _lapsus calami_ of Leland (who credits the Venerable Bede with an acquaintance with Deerhurst about the year 700) would seem to give it an earlier date.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire

Adamnan, after Columba himself the brightest ornament of the School of Iona, in his "Life" of the founder, makes explicit references to the tabulae, waxen tablets for writing; to the pens and styles, graphia and calami, and to the ink-horn, cornicula atramenti, to be found in the scriptorium.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The pens used for writing were either made of reeds (calami) or of quills (pennae).

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

[18] At this point there is another _lapsus calami_ by the transcriber of the manuscript, resulting in another reduplication.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906