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scriptorium

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In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.

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Barren and sun-lit rooms (because candles were a source of fire) were major features of the scriptorium that was both a model of production and monastic piety. Source: Internet

Fuller image Dunstan worked as a silversmith and in the scriptorium while he was living at Glastonbury. Source: Internet

Anonymus Valesianus, 11.53 Pierius' grant is the lone surviving document which has survived from the civic scriptorium of Syracuse prior to the Byzantine reconquest. Source: Internet

The historian Hugo Buchtal wrote that :"Jerusalem during the second quarter of the twelfth century possessed a flourishing and well-established scriptorium which could, without difficulty, undertake a commission for a royal manuscript de grand luxe". 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 first corrections were done by several scribes before the manuscript left the scriptorium. Source: Internet

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