SCRIPTORIUM

scriptorium

(noun) a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

scriptorium (plural scriptoria or scriptoriums)

(countable) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.

Source: Wiktionary


Scrip*to"ri*um, n.; pl. Scriptoria. Etym: [LL. See Scriptory.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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