scriptorium
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of scriptorium
Vocabulary lists containing scriptorium
Medieval Europe - Middle School
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Medieval Europe - High School
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Marsha Ginsberg’s set featured an open-sided gold box that rotated and moved on and off stage—it became the scriptorium and the abbot’s domain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
“I feel like I’m a monk in a scriptorium keeping something alive,” Matthews said.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023
While the exact age of the two-sided page is unknown, it is believed to have been written in the abbey's scriptorium between 1225 and 1250.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2022
It was created by scribes in a scriptorium in Wales under Jackson’s artistic direction, and is the first monumental, illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in the modern era.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2018
There were no books in Elinor's kitchen, not one, but they ate an excellent supper there at a wooden table that came, so Elinor assured them, from the scriptorium of an Italian monastery.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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