Crossword-Solution: SCRIPTORIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scriptorium | n. | In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “SCRIPTORIUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Copying room in a monastery | 1 answer |
| MONASTERY room set aside for writing | 1 answer |
| Monastery room for writing | 1 answer |
| Monastery room in which scribes could copy records or manuscripts | 1 answer |
| ROOM set aside for writing | 1 answer |
| writing room | 2 answers |
| MONASTERY room | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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Sentences with SCRIPTORIUM (5)
His successor, Thomas, enlarged his own study, and bought many books for it; and, with the assistance of Thomas of Walsingham, then precentor and master of the scriptorium, he built a writing-room at his own expense.
The libraries were also augmented by gifts and bequests, as well as by purchase and by transcription in the scriptorium.
All the materials for the use of the scribes and the manuscripts for copying were to be provided by him.[243] He made the ink, and could dole it out not only to the brethren but to lay folk if they asked for it civilly.[244] He also controlled the work in the scriptorium: setting the scribes their tasks, preventing them from idling or talking; walking round the cloister when the bell sounded to collect the books which had been forgotten by careless monks.
Yet I loved to be in the scriptorium of the Abbey, and to see the good Father Peter limning the blessed saints in blue, and red, and gold, of which art he taught me a little.
When he grew older and was allowed to prowl about in the scriptorium of the Abbey of Montmirail which lay by the Canche side, he found his wood again.
Quotes with SCRIPTORIUM (1)
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1983).