So Jenson went for the Carolingian minuscule, but even that was just one example of one person’s interpretation of the contemporary fashion in scriptoria. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The point, he says, is that Irish monks, drinking deep from the Latin and Greek of what was called "civilization," gave it out to the world from their scriptoria in the Middle Ages and thus prevented its death. ❋ Frank Delaney (2010)
Reading, writing and printing managed to survive, allowing for today's lively debate about the intellectual and social consequences of the Internet, which book publishing legend Jason Epstein describes in the NYRB as a "Tech shift orders of magnitude greater than the momentous evolution from monkish scriptoria to movable type." ❋ Unknown (2010)
I set down my lapidary prose during the hours of dawn and dusk, and scribble my immortal thoughts onto parchment scavenged from the scriptoria of monasteries during the Henrician Iconoclasm. ❋ Kat Howard (2009)
"Pen style" seems to have swept through the scriptoria of English monasteries and beyond, through the influence of several prized, very-early manuscripts, one of which can be traced to England by the year 1000, and to have persisted in various guises for centuries. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Many of our best classical texts have come down to us from these monastic scriptoria of the ninth century; practically all extant Latin poetry except Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and nearly all extant Latin prose except Varro, Tacitus, and Apuleius, were preserved for us by the monks of the Carolingian age. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2009)
Many of the important "insular" manuscripts were in fact produced in the scriptoria of these communities. ❋ Dafydd (2008)
It clinches my thesis once and for all, that the Anglo-Saxon tradition was kept alive in the secret scriptoria of the cathedrals well into the medieval period. ❋ Gibbons, David (2007)
Though the scriptoria showed little creativity, many manuscripts were preserved and the foundation was laid for later study. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Libraries, studies, scriptoria, laboratories ... through all these Dalamar wandered listlessly and with little interest in what he saw. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2000)
I have seen at other times and in other places many scriptoria, but none where there shone so luminously, in the outpouring, of physical light which made the room glow, the spiritual principle that light incarnates, radiance, source of all beauty and learning, inseparable attribute of that proportion the room embodied. ❋ Eco, Umberto (1980)
The Olivetans practised this art extensively, and, much as some monasteries had scriptoria for the production of books, so others had carpenter's shops and studios where, according to Michele Caffi, they showed "great talent for working in wood, succeeding to the heirship of the art of tarsia in coloured woods, which they got from Tuscany." ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)
In the foregoing chapters I have endeavored to give the reader an insight into the means by which the monks multiplied their books, the opportunities they had of obtaining them, the rules of their libraries and scriptoria, and the duties of a monkish librarian. ❋ Frederick Somner Merryweather (N/A)
