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‖ scriptorium|skrɪpˈtɔərɪəm|
Pl. scriptoria, -iums.
[med.L. f. L. script-, scrībĕre to write: see -orium.]
A writing-room; spec. the room in a religious house set apart for the copying of manuscripts.
1774T. West Antiq. Furness Expl. Ground Plan, H, the chapter-house, over which were the library and scriptorium. 1828H. Angelo Remin. (1830) I. 66 The attics or scriptoriums of the poets of the last age. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §1 (1882) 113 Writing-rooms or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature..were copied and illuminated. 1907Times, Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 17/1 Drowsy intelligences and numbed fingers in a draughty scriptorium, will easily account for deviations. |