Noun
The word is derived from scriptorium
of Scriptorium
Source: Webster's dictionaryThis 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