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Monastery room for writing
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scriptorium
Word definitions for scriptorium in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"writing room," 1774, from Late Latin scriptorium "place for writing," noun use of neuter of Latin scriptorius "pertaining to writing," from Latin scriptus , past participle of scribere "to write" (see script (n.)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scriptorium , literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the writing, copying and illuminating of manuscripts by monastic scribes . Written accounts, surviving buildings, and archaeological ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scriptorium \Scrip*to"ri*um\, n.; pl. Scriptoria . [LL. See Scriptory .] In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context countable English) A room set aside for the copying, write, or illuminate of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
Usage examples of scriptorium.
Old Language and Latin, which none of the preceptores in the scriptorium or chartularium could claim to be, so those monks muttered and grumbled only a little at my having won preferment instead of one of them.
Also, it had been illuminated by our scriptorium limners with pictures illustrating various things mentioned in the lection.
I went there only infrequently, for it was inferior even to the scriptorium at St.
I refuse to deposit this work in the royal archives or in any scriptorium accessible to the public, I can put it where it will never by remotest chance assault the eyes of the unwary.
Dugal took himself off to the brewhouse, and I continued on to the scriptorium intent on taking up my work once more.
The dying wind whined as it circled the scriptorium, searching among the chinks in the timbers for entrance, but many hands over many years had pressed tufts of raw wool into the cracks, frustrating all but the most savage gales.
In the scriptorium no voice was ever lifted above a whisper, and then rarely, lest the sound disturb or distract.
We secured our work for the night and left the scriptorium, joining our brothers in the chapel.
Libir, and I returned to the scriptorium where we worked until supper when the two scribes, failing to discover any other jot to alter, pronounced the work completed at last.
I wrapped my sodden cloak around me and thought about the warm security of the scriptorium aglow in the ruddy blaze of a peat fire.
Lastly, I saw my own hand working over a leaf of close-copied vellum at my desk in the scriptorium, pen quivering in the candlelight.
Bouchot for whom, at the lower rate, I did but two more assignments I removed myself to the Benedictine scriptorium on the Petersberg.
The scriptorium on the Petersberg being run by monks, the other noise was that of prayers, which we said three times a day.
But what I learned in the scriptorium is that the scribe is a meddler.
Dozing beside the furnace, while the bellows-boy puffed it to full heat, I would daydream back to the scriptorium, and imagine myself carving a page on metal instead of quilling it on vellum, and from that page casting a copy in relief, from which in turn, by rubbing ink on paper.