scriptorium

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The scriptorium was a great writing school too, and the rules of the art of writing which were laid down there were so rigidly and severely adhered to, that to this day it is difficult to decide at a glance whether a book was written in St. Alban's or St. Edmund's Abbey.

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  1. noun A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records.

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  1. Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptus, past participle of scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French escriptoire = Italian scrittojo, from Middle Latin scriptorium, a writing-room, Late Latin a metallic style for writing on wax, properly neuter of scriptorius, pertaining to writing or a writer: see scriptory.
 

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/skrɪpˈtoʊriəm/
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