Example Sentences

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Beautifully woven vestments and altar frontals affirm that Armenian believers saw as much beauty in services as in the scriptoria.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2018

As far as she knew, the monks had worked at desks with sloping tops in the scriptoria of their monasteries, but she kept this information to herself.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

They reproduced those works for their own use in the scriptoria of their numerous monasteries.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

Seven scriptoria are shown on the side of the library building.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

Many other scriptoria in England in the tenth century were equally busy with Winchester, but none could vie with the royal city in the production of illuminated books.

From Illuminated Manuscripts by Bradley, John William