What does scriptorium mean?

Definitions for scriptorium
skrɪpˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr-; -ˈtɔr i ə, -ˈtoʊr-scrip·to·ri·um

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scriptoriumnoun

    a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts

Wiktionary

  1. scriptoriumnoun

    A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records.

  2. Etymology: From scriptorium, from scriptor + -ium.

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  1. scriptorium

    A scriptorium is a room or designated space, typically within a monastery, where scribes worked on transcribing and illuminating manuscripts during the Middle Ages. The term can also refer to an institution that specializes in keeping, copying, classifying, and distributing manuscripts. Today, it's often used to describe a room in libraries and schools where special collections are held.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scriptoriumnoun

    in an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing

  2. Etymology: [LL. See Scriptory.]

Wikidata

  1. Scriptorium

    Scriptorium, literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the copying of manuscripts by monastic scribes. Written accounts, surviving buildings, and archaeological excavations all show, however, that contrary to popular belief such rooms rarely existed: most monastic writing was done in cubicle-like recesses in the cloister, or in the monks' own cells. References in modern scholarly writings to 'scriptoria' more usually refer to the collective written output of a monastery, rather than to a physical room. A scriptorium was a necessary adjunct to a library; wherever there was a library it can ordinarily be assumed that there was a scriptorium. Scriptoria in the conventional sense of a room set aside for the purpose probably only existed for limited periods of time, when an institution or individual wanted a large number of texts copied to stock a library; once the library was stocked, there was no further need for a designated room. By the start of the 13th century secular copy-shops developed; professional scribes may have had special rooms set aside for writing, but in most cases they probably simply had a writing-desk next to a window in their own house.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scriptorium

    skrip-tō′ri-um, n. a writing-room, esp. that in a monastery.—adj. Scrip′tory, written.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scriptorium in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scriptorium in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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