scriptorium
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Vocabulary lists containing scriptorium
Medieval Europe - Middle School
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In his "Scriptorium," a room lined with hundreds of pigeonholes stuffed with more than 5 million quotation slips, Murray presided like a medieval abbot.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was aware that, personally, he wished himself back at Mrs. Paynter's and the Scriptorium.
From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
They were in fact devices to provide a certain amount of privacy for literary work in Houses where there was no Scriptorium or writing-room.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
Concerning the "Scriptoria" in monasteries and in particular the "Scriptorium" of St. Albans, see Hardy, "Descriptive Catalogue," 1871, Rolls, vol. iii. pp. xi. ff.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
Scriptorium, skrip-tō′ri-um, n. a writing-room, esp. that in a monastery.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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