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 literature . . . were copied and illuminated.
--J. R. Green.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of scriptorium English)
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Usage examples of "scriptoria".
Whenever I left the court of the palace, or the tablet house, or the marketplace, I came right home to work all evening on the Holy Scriptures, with my sisters and my cousins and uncles in the scriptoria of our houses, which were big rooms.
The incunabula (the first printed books) made knowledge accessible (sometimes in the vernacular) to scholars and laymen alike and liberated books from the scriptoria and "libraries" of monasteries.
He had to do every step himself at a time when scriptoria divided up these functions.