A person who studies, produces, or specializes in colophons (inscriptions in books or manuscripts) or colophony (rosin).
From colophon + -ist suffix. The -ist suffix indicates a person who practices, studies, or specializes in something.
A colophonist is a specialist in colophons—those decorative inscriptions at the end of medieval books that told you who made it—they're bibliophile detectives uncovering book history!
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