[[Image:Escribano2.jpg|right| this miniature fr. 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.]]
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[[Image:Escribano2.jpg|right|thumb|"This miniature fr. 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."]]
Note: This miniature is from Christopher De Hamel, ''Scribes and Illuminators'', (Toronto: U Toronto Press, 1992), p.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.
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(plural '''scriptoria''') comes from the [[medieval]] [[Latin]] ''script-'', ''scribere'' (to write), where ''-orium'' is the neuter singular ending for adjectives describing place. Thus, a scriptorium is literally "a place for writing". (Enter ''Daynal Scriptorium'' here: [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/forum/]