Scriptorium

The word scriptorium (in the plural, of the scriptoria ) comes from the Latin Verbe scribere which means “to write” or “that which writes”. This name indicates the Atelier in which the Moine S copyists carried out handwritten copies, before the réinvention of the Imprimerie in Occident. Nowadays, the scriptorium indicates by extension a room dedicated to work of writing.

Places where existed scriptoria

There is had an about sixty scriptoria into full Moyen-âge. They developed particularly at the time Carolingian. They were in the monasteries, the archbishop's palaces, or in évêchés. Among the principal ones, one can quote:

Monasteries:

Archbishop's palaces:

Evêchés:

Homonymy

Scriptorium is also the name of an international review of the relative studies to the Manuscrit S Médiévaux. Founded in 1946, Scriptorium is a multilingual semi-annual publication which treat primarily Codicologie and Bibliographie related with the medieval Manuscrit S of Europe.

Founded at the end of 1999 symbolically, in the two millenia passing, by the French writer Dominique Sorrente, Scriptorium is also a literary adventure, born in Marseilles, close to the port of the small valley of Auffes. Scriptorium is appeared as meetings called Intervalles whose traces are colligées in Funds of the former Future. Each year, a caravan of the poets wandering led the participants until in the monument of the sculptor Amado dedicated to Arthur Rimbaud on the Beach of Prado. " Locality of crossed words, marked sign of the poésie" , Scriptorium, in this contemporary version, is presented in the form of a metaphorical table where poets and artists work jointly to clarify reality.

External bond

  • scriptorium on the encyclopedia of the French language

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