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Definition of Scriptoria

Scriptoria
Scriptorium Scrip*to"ri*um, n.; pl. Scriptoria. [LL. See Scriptory.] In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated. --J. R. Green.

Meaning of Scriptoria from wikipedia

- archaeological excavations do not invariably attest to the evidence of scriptoria. Scriptoria, in the physical sense of a room set aside for the purpose, perhaps...
- German. Surviving Old High German texts were all composed in monastic scriptoria, so the overwhelming majority of them are religious in nature or, when...
- including legal treatises, histories, and poetry as well as religious texts. Scriptoria at monasteries and cathedrals focused on the copying of both new and old...
- Arundo glauca Bubani Arundo latifolia Salisb. Arundo sativa Lam. Arundo scriptoria L. Arundo triflora Roxb. Arundo versicolor Mill. Cynodon donax (L.) Raspail...
- early written tradition of OHG survived mostly through monasteries and scriptoria as local translations of Latin originals; as a result, the surviving texts...
- annotations appear to date to the 13th century and later. Seven major scriptoria produced a good deal of Old English m****cripts: Winchester; Exeter; Worcester;...
- decorations and illumination are also a part of it. They are specific to the scriptoria, or any production center, and libraries of codices. Watermarks may provide...
- NY: St Vladimir's Seminary Press. Pokrovsii. N.N. “Western Siberian Scriptoria and Binderies: Ancient Traditions Among the Old Believers.” The Book Collector...
- writing in the scriptorium started to employ laybrothers from the urban scriptoria, especially in Paris, Rome and the Netherlands. Demand for m****cripts...
- religion, who, unlike most ordinary Egyptians, were literate in the temple scriptoria. Old Coptic is represented mostly by non-Christian texts such as Egyptian...