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The [[Plan of St. Gall]] is a sketch dating from 819-826 of an imaginary Benedictine monastery (not a real one), which shows the scriptorium and library attached the northeast corner of the main body of the church; this is not reflected by the evidence of surviving monasteries.

The [[Plan of St. Gall]] is a sketch dating from 819-826 of an imaginary Benedictine monastery (not a real one), which shows the scriptorium and library attached the northeast corner of the main body of the church; this is not reflected by the evidence of surviving monasteries.

The mother house of the [[Cistercian]] order at [[Cîteaux]], one of the best-documented high-medieval scriptoria, developed a "house style" in the first half of the twelfth century that spread with the order itself.<ref>Yolanta Załuska, ''L'enluminure et le scriptorium de Cîteaux au XIIe siècle'' (Brecht:Cîteaux) 1989.</ref> In 1134, the Cistercian order declared that the monks were to keep silent in the scriptorium as they should in the [[cloister]].  There is evidence that the existence of a separate scriptorium for communal writing was later untypical: in the 13th century, the Cistercians would allow certain monks to perform their writing in a small cell "which could not... contain more than one person".<ref>Geo. Haven Putnam, ''Books and their Makers During the Middle Ages'', (New York: Hillary House, 1962), 405.</ref>

The mother house of the [[Cistercian]] order at [[Cîteaux]], one of the best-documented high-medieval scriptoria, developed a "house style" in the first half of the twelfth century that spread with the order itself.<ref>Yolanta Załuska, ''L'enluminure et le scriptorium de Cîteaux au XIIe siècle'' (Brecht:Cîteaux) 1989. In 1134, the Cistercian order declared that the monks were to keep silent in the scriptorium as they should in the [[cloister]].  There is evidence that the existence of a separate scriptorium for communal writing was later untypical: in the 13th century, the Cistercians would allow certain monks to perform their writing in a small cell "which could not... contain more than one person".<ref>Geo. Haven Putnam, ''Books and their Makers During the Middle Ages'', (New York: Hillary House, 1962), 405

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Alexander, J. J. G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

* Alexander, J. J. G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

* Bischoff, Bernard, "Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne," in ''Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne,'' trans. Gorman, pp. 20-55. Surveys regional scriptoria in the early Middle Ages.

* Bischoff, Bernard, "Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne," in ''Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne,'' trans. Gorman, pp. 20-55. Surveys regional scriptoria in the early Middle Ages.

* Sullivan, Richard. "What Was Carolingian Monasticism? The Plan of St Gall and the History of Monasticism." In ''After Romes's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History'', edited by Alexander Callander Murray, 251-287. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1998.  

* Sullivan, Richard. "What Was Carolingian Monasticism? The Plan of St Gall and the History of Monasticism." In ''After Romes's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History'', edited by Alexander Callander Murray, 251-287. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1998.  

* Vogue, Adalbert de. ''The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Doctrinal and Spiritual Commentary''. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1983.

* Vogue, Adalbert de. ''The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Doctrinal and Spiritual Commentary''. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1983.

==See also==

==See also==