Word info

scriptoria

Noun

The word is derived from scriptorium

Meaning

of Scriptorium

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

This was because these cities did not have powerful religious institutions or universities, where competing copyist production (scriptoria) took place. Source: Internet

Print. By the fourteenth century, the cloisters of monks writing in the scriptorium started to employ laybrothers from the urban scriptoria, especially in Paris, Rome and the Netherlands. Source: Internet

The principal examples are derived from scriptoria in northern Italy, where it was displaced by the Carolingian minuscule during the 9th century. Source: Internet

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