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What is the Scriptorium?

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Question: What is the Scriptorium?

Answer:✨ a room set apart for writing, especially one in a monastery where manuscripts were copied. Scriptorium is a Latin word that means "place for writing." It was a place where books were copied and illuminated (painted). A scribe wrote the text for a book, and an artist, called an illuminator, painted the pictures and decoration. Scribes and illuminators made each book by hand.

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Why is the scriptorium so important?

scriptorium, writing room set aside in monastic communities for the use of scribes engaged in copying manuscripts. Scriptoria were an important feature of the Middle Ages, most characteristically of Benedictine establishments because of St. Benedict's support of literary activities.

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