scriptorium
noun
scrip·to·ri·um
skrip-ˈtȯr-ē-əm 
plural scriptoria
skrip-ˈtȯr-ē-ə
: a copying room for scribes especially in a medieval monastery
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The scriptorium darkens over white vellum.
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Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2011
The books were assembled in the Rupertsberg scriptorium, where nuns transcribed Hildegard’s prose and inserted illustrations of her ideas.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
Brendan spends his days at a scriptorium, learning from a master illuminator, Brother Aidan, and gathering materials for ink in a nearby forest.
—Mark O’Connell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
It was created by scribes in a scriptorium in Wales under Jackson’s artistic direction, and is the first monumental, illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in the modern era.
—Thomas Saccente, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2018
Visual inspection suggested that this manuscript, from the Christ Church scriptorium in Canterbury and dating to about 1125 C.E. to 1150 C.E., was also made of interleaved calf, sheep, and goat.
—Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 25 July 2017
Until William Caxton used a printing press in 1475, English words were reproduced by scribes in scriptoria.
—Anne Trubek, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2012
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Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2011
The books were assembled in the Rupertsberg scriptorium, where nuns transcribed Hildegard’s prose and inserted illustrations of her ideas.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
Brendan spends his days at a scriptorium, learning from a master illuminator, Brother Aidan, and gathering materials for ink in a nearby forest.
—Mark O’Connell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
It was created by scribes in a scriptorium in Wales under Jackson’s artistic direction, and is the first monumental, illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in the modern era.
—Thomas Saccente, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2018
Visual inspection suggested that this manuscript, from the Christ Church scriptorium in Canterbury and dating to about 1125 C.E. to 1150 C.E., was also made of interleaved calf, sheep, and goat.
—Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 25 July 2017
Until William Caxton used a printing press in 1475, English words were reproduced by scribes in scriptoria.
—Anne Trubek, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2012
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scriptorium
noun
scrip·to·ri·um
skrip-ˈtōr-ē-əm
-ˈtȯr-
plural scriptoria
-ē-ə
: a copying room in a monastery for use by scribes in the Middle Ages
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