ADAM2. Adam Scriveyne, or Adam the scrivener, was Chaucer's copyist. Several Adams have been suggested: Adam Stedeman, a London goldsmith, employed by John Walsshe to write his will, c. 1360-1475; Adam Acton; and Adam Pinkhurst. Adam may also be a generic name for all scriveners, following a tradition that made Adam the inventor of letters.
Chaucer wishes the "scalle," a disease of the scalp, on Adam, his scrivener, if he does not copy Boece or Troilus more accurately than hitherto, Adam 1-7.
The name appears initially, Adam 1.