The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.
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Scriptorium
//skɹɪpˈtɔː.ɹɪəm//
Synonyms for "scriptorium"
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Translations
31 translations across 25 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- скрыпторый noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Catalan
1 entries- escriptori noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 寫字間 /写字间 noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
- 撰經閣 /撰经阁 noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Czech
1 entries- skriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Dutch
2 entries- schrijfzaal noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
- scriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Finnish
2 entries- kirjoitushuone noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
- scriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
French
1 entries- scriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Georgian
1 entries- სკრიპტორიუმი noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
German
1 entries- Skriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Indonesian
1 entries- skriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Japanese
1 entries- 写字室 noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Lithuanian
1 entries- skriptoriumas noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Macedonian
2 entries- писарница noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
- скрипториум noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Polish
1 entries- skryptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Romanian
1 entries- scriptorie noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Russian
1 entries- скрипторий noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- skrìptōrīj noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
- скрѝпто̄рӣј noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Slovak
1 entries- skriptórium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Slovene
1 entries- skriptorij noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Spanish
1 entries- scriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Swedish
2 entries- scriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
- skriptorium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Thai
1 entries- โรงเขียนหนังสือ noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Ukrainian
1 entries- скрипто́рій noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Welsh
1 entries- sgriptoriwm noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
West-Frisian
1 entries- skriptoarium noun (room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Very soon, however, I hesitated. It was labour-intensive work, scriptorium-slow.
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Nevertheless, Aland criticized Martin's suggestion that the codex was the product of the scriptorium attached to a monastery,⁵³⁶ on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of monasteries in the year 200, or for the existence of scriptoria at all connected with the Church at that early date.
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Among the earliest Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts is the Book of Durrow, a Gospel book that may have been written and decorated in the monastic scriptorium at Iona, although its provenance is not documented.
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