Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scriptorium"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scriptorium \Scrip*to"ri*um\, n.; pl. {Scriptoria}. [LL. See
{Scriptory}.]
In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or
copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.
Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of
Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated.
--J. R. Green.
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