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| ''''Scriptorium'''' 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. Scriptoria in the conventional sense 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 room to be set aside for the purpose. 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. | | ''''Scriptorium'''' 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. Scriptoria in the conventional sense 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 room to be set aside for the purpose. 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. |
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| * 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. |
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− | *[[The Daynal Scriptorium]]
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− | | + | * [http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/The Digital Scriptorium]: a visual catalog, an image database of dated and datable medieval and Renaissance manuscripts that forms a repertory of scriptorium styles |
− | * [http://sunsite.lib.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/index.html The Digital Scriptorium]: a visual catalog, an image database of dated and datable medieval and Renaissance manuscripts that forms a repertory of scriptorium styles | |
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| * [http://www.newyorkcarver.com/scriptoria3.htm#Scriptorium New York Carver: Scriptorium] | | * [http://www.newyorkcarver.com/scriptoria3.htm#Scriptorium New York Carver: Scriptorium] |