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Scriptorium in a sentence
Scriptorium meaning
A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
Synonyms of Scriptorium
Using Scriptorium
- The main meaning on this page is: A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
- Useful related words include: room.
- In the example corpus, scriptorium often appears in combinations such as: the scriptorium, scriptorium which.
Context around Scriptorium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scriptorium
- In this selection, "scriptorium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, civic, established and started stand out and add context to how "scriptorium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include had his scriptorium re erected and in the scriptorium at banbury. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scriptorium" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scriptorium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Murray had his Scriptorium re-erected on his new property. (10 words)
The first corrections were done by several scribes before the manuscript left the scriptorium. (14 words)
Fuller image Dunstan worked as a silversmith and in the scriptorium while he was living at Glastonbury. (17 words)
The historian Hugo Buchtal wrote that :"Jerusalem during the second quarter of the twelfth century possessed a flourishing and well-established scriptorium which could, without difficulty, undertake a commission for a royal manuscript de grand luxe". (36 words)
Oxford editors James Murray in the Scriptorium at Banbury Road During the 1870s, the Philological Society was concerned with the process of publishing a dictionary with such an immense scope. (30 words)
Theodore also built the Stoudios monastery into a major scholarly center, in particular through its library and scriptorium, which certainly surpassed all other contemporary Byzantine ecclesiastical institutions in this regard. (30 words)
Example sentences (10)
Dean of Rochester the Very Rev Philip Hesketh said: “We’re thrilled to host the world premiere of Scriptorium.
Anonymus Valesianus, 11.53 Pierius' grant is the lone surviving document which has survived from the civic scriptorium of Syracuse prior to the Byzantine reconquest.
Barren and sun-lit rooms (because candles were a source of fire) were major features of the scriptorium that was both a model of production and monastic piety.
Fuller image Dunstan worked as a silversmith and in the scriptorium while he was living at Glastonbury.
Murray had his Scriptorium re-erected on his new property.
Oxford editors James Murray in the Scriptorium at Banbury Road During the 1870s, the Philological Society was concerned with the process of publishing a dictionary with such an immense scope.
Print. By the fourteenth century, the cloisters of monks writing in the scriptorium started to employ laybrothers from the urban scriptoria, especially in Paris, Rome and the Netherlands.
The first corrections were done by several scribes before the manuscript left the scriptorium.
The historian Hugo Buchtal wrote that :"Jerusalem during the second quarter of the twelfth century possessed a flourishing and well-established scriptorium which could, without difficulty, undertake a commission for a royal manuscript de grand luxe".
Theodore also built the Stoudios monastery into a major scholarly center, in particular through its library and scriptorium, which certainly surpassed all other contemporary Byzantine ecclesiastical institutions in this regard.
Common combinations with scriptorium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: