scrinium

American  

[skrin-ee-uhm] / ˈskrɪn i əm /

noun

plural

scrinia

1. a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.

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Etymology

Origin of scrinium

< Latin scrīnium; shrine

Example Sentences

Rolls written in the first of these ways were simply rolled up and kept in cylinders of like shape, sometimes several together, with a title tag at the end of each, in a box called a scrinium.

From Project Gutenberg

Below is a cylindrical box, called scrinium and capsa, or capsula, in which the manuscripts were placed vertically, the titles at the top.

From Project Gutenberg

Rome, with shoemaker at work in front of a press, 38; in Villa Balestra, with physician reading, ibid. scrinium: box for carrying rolls, 30 Scriptorium: endowment, at Ely, 79; at S. Albans, 80 Scrivener, Matt.: bequeathes £50 to Univ.

From Project Gutenberg

A reliquary preserved at Clogher in 1300 was known as the membra, which, according to one explanation, was the equivalent of memoriale scrinium, memorial shrine.

From Project Gutenberg

In addition to these the four great stationary bureaux—the Scrinium Memoriae, Scrinium Dispositionum, Scrinium Epistolarum, and Scrinium Libellorum—the offices whose duty it was to conduct the correspondence of the Sovereign with foreign powers, and to answer the petitions of his own subjects, all owned the Master of the Offices as their head.

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