Scriptoriums

They were most often produced by anonymous scribes and artists in medieval monasteries, although secular, commercial scriptoriums eventually opened for what was essentially a luxury business—illuminated manuscripts were rare, expensive and took years to complete. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

Others were his personal acquisitions, imported at great expense from Calantyr and Mirhain and, in one or two prized instances, the scriptoriums of the Ardasi Empire. ❋ Liane Merciel (2010)

Without Wynn's consent, they begin sending the texts out to scriptoriums for copying. ❋ RobB (2008)

The work done in the scriptoriums of the monasteries, we know, was sent away as presents, or in exchange for other volumes. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)

In the Irish scriptoriums (rooms or cells for writing) of the Benedictine monasteries where they were prepared, so particular were the monks that the scribes were forbidden to use artificial light for fear of injuring the manuscripts. ❋ Unknown (1904)

It is distilled from curious old duodecimos packed on high shelves out of sight, and blows over folios, with large clasps, that once stood in monastery libraries, and gathers a subtle sweetness from parchments that were illuminated in ancient scriptoriums, that are now grass grown, and is fortified with good old musty calf. ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)

It is distilled from curious old duodecimos packed on high shelves out of sight, and blows over folios, with large clasps, that once stood in monastery libraries, and gathers a subtle sweetness from parchments that were illuminated in ancient scriptoriums that are now grass-grown, and it is fortified with good old musty calf. ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)