单词 | scriptorium |
释义 | scriptoriumn. 1. A room or area in a monastery set apart for writing, esp. one used by scribes copying and illuminating manuscripts; (hence) a particular school of scribes. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > parts of monastery > [noun] > writing room scriptorya1500 scriptorium1695 1695 T. Tanner Notitia Monastica Pref. sig. C 6v In every great Abby there was a large Room called the Scriptorium, to which belonged several Writers. a1721 C. Eyston in T. Hearne Hist. & Antiq. Glastonbury (1722) Pref. sig. o3 If they [sc. Monks] were..not in Office; or else employ'd in the Library or Scriptorium. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness Explan. Ground Plan H, the chapter-house, over which were the library and scriptorium. 1835 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. July 25 If a manuscript..came out of the Scriptorium of some well-respected monastery [etc.]. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §1. 113 Writing-rooms or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature..were copied and illuminated..formed..a part of every religious house of any importance. 1946 E. Diehl Bookbinding I. iv. 53 There were undoubtedly trained scribes in England outside of the monastic scriptoria before the advent of printing. 1983 J. Hutchinson Lett. iii. 105 A beautiful, round minuscule hand for the text became [one of the] distinctive characteristics of the St. Martin's scriptorium. 2005 S. Carolina Hist. Mag. 106 118 Medieval monks..painstakingly labored to preserve texts by years of faithful work in the scriptorium. 2. In extended use: a room or place used for writing, research, storage of books, etc.spec. (usually with capital initial) with reference to either of the two purpose-built outbuildings in which parts of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1884–1928) were written (the first was built in 1879 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, where the chief editor, James Murray, worked; a replacement was later built in the garden of his Oxford home). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > writing room scriptorya1500 writing chamber1563 writing booth1568 writing house1597 writing-room1670 scriptorium1828 scrivenery1895 1828 H. Angelo Reminisc. I. 66 The attics or scriptoriums of the poets of the last age. 1881 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 2 550 The Philological Society's English Dictionary... The Scriptorium itself is a modest building enough, consisting of a single long, low room adjoining the editor's residence. 1957 V. Nabokov Pnin iii. 73 He marched to his books, to his scriptorium in the stacks, to his paradise of Russian lore. 1979 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 56 304 For OED work, Murray built a Scriptorium adjacent to his home. 2011 Texas Monthly (Nexis) Sept. 58 Tell me about your scriptorium... It's this shack that I built... I go out there and I find that I'm able to write better when I have a lot of solitude. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1695 |
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