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Indeed, Hearne had good occasion to speak well of the treasures of Baker's "scrinia;" as the Appendix to his Thomas de Elmham alone testifies.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

The correspondence between the prince and his subjects was managed by the four scrinia, or offices of this minister of state.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart

Non non hoc tibi, salse, sic abibit: Nam, si luxerit, ad librariorum Curram scrinia, Caesios, Aquinos, Suffenum, omnia colligam venena, 20Ac te his suppliciis remunerabor.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The Apostolic court being organized from the first on the model of the Roman imperial court, the early pontiffs would naturally have collected their archives, as the emperors had done, into scrinia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

Quamdiu apud bibliopolas ista venierint, tamdiu frustra nostrorum codices prohibentur; frustra servantur aditus oraeque maritimae; frustra domus, arcae, scrinia, capsulae disquiruntur; frustra tot portis minaces tabulae suffiguntur.

From Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund