| 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 | | 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 |
− | [[Image:Scriptorium.jpg|This miniature <ref>Christopher De Hamel, ''Scribes and Illuminators'', (Toronto: U Toronto Press, 1992), 36.</ref> is a fanciful late fifteenth-century depiction of a scribe at work: he is shown copying a document or scroll from a bound book.]] | + | [[Image:Scriptorium.jpg|This miniature <ref>Christopher De Hamel, ''Scribes and Illuminators'', (Toronto: U Toronto Press, 1992), 36. is a fanciful late fifteenth-century depiction of a scribe at work: he is shown copying a document or scroll from a bound book.</ref>]] |