noun
- a room in a monastery or other institution where manuscripts were copied by hand
Usage: historical
Examples
- The monks worked diligently in the scriptorium, copying religious texts.
- Medieval scriptoriums were centers of learning and book production.
- The abbey’s scriptorium contained dozens of illuminated manuscripts.
- Scribes in the scriptoium used quill pens and parchment.
- The monastery’s scriptorium preserved many ancient works.
- Each scriptorium had strict rules about silence and concentration.