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Scriptorium
Jaclyn Lee Parrott
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Scriptorium
A writing room in a monastery set aside for the use of scribes engaged in copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records.
From the medieval Latin script-scribere (to write) and orium (place)
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Purposes for Copying Text
Liturgy
Study and meditation (lectio divina)
Communication
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Monk working in a scriptorium, engraving a 15th century manuscript
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Roles• Armarius or Bibliothecarius
• Antiquarii
• Librarii or Scriptores
• Illuminator
• Notarius
• Corrector
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A medieval monk copying from a text, in a scriptoriumThe Bettmann Archive
“Only three fingers write, but the whole body toils.” Scribe Eadbeorht
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HistoryCassiodorus (485/90-c.580) in Italy was the first to dwell on the spiritual value of transcribing texts in a scriptorium
“Every work of the Lord written by the scribe is a wound inflicted on Satan.”
517, First European monastic writing
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• 529 Benedict of Nursia, Monte Cassino
Rule of St. Benedict“Idleness is the enemy of
the soul”
• 819-826 Benedictine Scriptoria of St. Gall had 400 books
Benedictines
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564Book of KellsIona MonasteryFounded by Columba (Columcille) http://www.brattleborology.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/book-of-kells.jpg
We cannot forget the Irish and how they preserved Latin for us!
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Cistercians and Carthusians
1134 Cistercian Order, monks should be silent in scriptorium
Carthusians viewed copying as missionary work
Start of 13th century, secular copyshops developed
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http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscrip
torium/
http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/
Digital Scriptorium
St. John’s Bible
“The continuous process of remaining open and accepting of what may reveal itself through hand and heart on a crafted page is the closest I have ever come to God.” ~Donald Jackson, Artistic Director
TODAY
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Questions?
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• "scriptorium." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 19 Feb. 2013. <http://www.britannica.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/EBchecked/topic/530013/scriptorium>.
• Stewart, David R. “Libraries, Western Christian.” In Encyclopedia of Monasticism, Ed. Wm. M. Johnston. Vol.1. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000: 235-236. http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ereserves/item.asp?id=51281