scriptorium
/skrɪpˈtɔːrɪəm
/noun (plural scriptoria /skrɪpˈtɔːrɪə/ or scriptoriums) chiefly historical
A room set apart for writing, especially one in a monastery where manuscripts were copied.After all, it was assumed that all monks could read and write. Monasteries also contained libraries and scriptoria, or writing rooms, in which manuscripts were copied....
- By the 9th century, most monasteries had writing rooms or scriptoria.
- A limited form of mass production was able to be achieved in large scriptoria contained in monasteries.
Origin
Late 18th century: from medieval Latin, from Latin script- 'written', from the verb scribere.
Rhymes
- you can't have your cake and eat it (too)
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't keep a good man (or woman) down
- you can't lose
- you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- you can't make bricks without straw
- you can't (or can) talk (you shouldn't or should talk)
- you can't put an old head on young shoulders
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't win them all (or win some, lose some)
- you could have fooled me!
- you could have knocked me (or her, him, etc.) down with a feather
- you couldn't make it up
- you'd
- you don't say (or you don't say so)!
- Youghiogheny River
- you have no idea
- you haven't lived!
- youing
- you know
- you know something (or what)?
- you-know-who (or you-know-what)
- you'll
- you may (or might) as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- you must be (or have to be) joking