Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
3,901,030,042 visitors served.
forum Join the Word of the Day Mailing List For webmasters
?
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

Scriptorium
(redirected from scriptoria)

    Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Wikipedia 0.01 sec.
scriptorium
A writing room; specifically, the room assigned in a monastery for the copying of manuscripts.
Scriptorium 

a writing room in Western European monasteries of the sixth through 12th centuries. Books, primarily religious in content, were transcribed in the scriptoria for the church and for the secular aristocracy. The principal types of medieval book hand were developed in the leading scriptoria in Tours, Corbie, Fulda, and elsewhere. Beginning in the late 12th century, scriptoria were supplanted by town craft-guild shops; these shops utilized division of labor and produced books in greater numbers, both to order and for the general market.
Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link 		Feedback
Mentioned in?  References in periodicals archive?   Encyclopedia browser?   Full browser?
No references found
 
There is a very long local tradition of scriptoria, stretching back over 1,500 years to the monks of Holy Island," said chairman of the Scribes, retired headteacher Mike Mavro-Michaelis, 66, from Alnmouth in Northumberland.
Illuminating show of an ancient art by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
As he makes clear in his 'introduction', his edition favours manuscripts descending from contemporary private collectors over collections descending from scriptoria.
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Songs to Phillis: A ... by Walker, Keith / Yearbook of English Studies
ManTech already offers the SQL Conversion Workbench to port Informix, SQL Server and Sybase databases to DB2; Bunker Hill's Scriptoria offers similar capabilities for moving Oracle and Access databases to DB2.
Conversion Tools, XML Will Help DB2 Compete Against Oracle by Computergram International
 
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Terms of Use | Privacy policy | Feedback | Advertise with Us | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc.
Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.