scriptorium
Noun
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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.
Fuller image Dunstan worked as a silversmith and in the scriptorium while he was living at Glastonbury.
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.
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".
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.
The first corrections were done by several scribes before the manuscript left the scriptorium.