The Road to Hirschau The Convent of Hirschau in the Black Forest The Scriptorium The Cloisters The Chapel The Refectory The Neighboring Nunnery V.
I have heard much laud Of your transcribers, Your Scriptorium Is famous among all; your manuscripts Praised for their beauty and their excellence.
Mark how his thoughts dwelt--even when surrounded by those high dignitaries of the church, and in the midst of that important council--on the library and the scriptorium of his monastery.
The protestant is still more scandalized, and denounces the monks, their books, scriptorium and all together as part and parcel of popish craft and Romish superstition.
With such literary qualifications, it was to be expected the Scriptoriumwould flourish under his government, and the library increase under his fostering care.
But the Scriptorium was frequently supported by resources solely applicable to its use.
Pilgrims from the East and Papal agents brought news of foreign events to his scriptorium at St. Albans.
St. Martin's of Tournay had a famous scriptorium also, noted for the beauty of its writing and its grand initial letters.
The scriptorium at St. Alban's, to which the fame of book production in the Middle Ages very largely reverted, was not founded until nearly three centuries after the foundation of that abbey.
For a full week, the Scriptorium had been uninhabitable by night, the hands of authors growing too numb there to write.
Scriptorium by the light under the door, found the little Doctor pacing the floor in his stocking feet, with the gas blazing and the shade up as high as it would go.
What went on behind the door of the tiny Scriptorium the boarders could only guess.
The Scriptorium had been degraded into a sickening school of journalism.
The little Doctor shut the door of the Scriptorium and lit the gas.
Queed sat alone in his Scriptorium and embraced his love.
He had liked, too, the soft-shaded lamps; the vague resolve had come to him to install a lamp in the Scriptorium later on.
The scriptorium at St. Alban's was founded by Abbot Paul, a kinsman of Archbishop Lanfrance, when the great Abbey had already existed for three centuries.
The scriptorium of a great monastery was at once the printing-press and the publishing office.
But it was not in the scriptorium nor was it in the bestiaries or the examples of his predecessors that he acquired his art.
During the eighth century rivalry to Irish art sprung up in the south; and the immediate followers of St. Augustine of Canterbury founded a scriptorium which produced many fine specimens.
The scriptorium of St. Albans was the most celebrated.
We are told that the most scrupulous exactitude was required in the Scriptorium of Iona, and that Columba himself, a skilful penman, wrote out the famous Book of Kells with his own hand.
Not far from thescriptorium was the interior school .
The Printer must at the same time be a Calligrapher, or in touch with him, and there must be in association with the Printing Press a Scriptoriumwhere beautiful writing may be practised and the art of letter-designing kept alive.
The better to maintain silence nobody was permitted to enter the scriptorium save the abbot, the prior and sub-prior, and the preceptor.
The need for books was so great that in the scriptorium of which Brother Basil had charge, very little time was spent on illumination.
He set all in order in the scriptorium where he had toiled for five long years.
All of their gentle craft that the master limners and letterers in this great scriptorium of Tewkesbury Abbey could teach him, he had learned.
St. Columba (dead in 598) and describes the writing materials which that saint had used in his scriptorium in the island of Hy.
The Breviary underwent similar increase, and the result was to make the Liturgy so extensive and so complex that it gave continual employment in the scriptorium of every church and monastery all over Europe.
Mr Maitland thinks that, in later times, the Scriptorium was a small cell, that would only hold one person--not so in earlier times.
When the floods had gone down and the guests departed, Brother Basil in the scriptorium found Padraig diligently at work on a new design for the border of the manuscript he was illuminating.
Now that the work of the scriptorium was coming to be known, orders were received for splendidly illuminated missals and other volumes, for which gilding was necessary.
In such an abbey as that of Bury St. Edmunds a small army of writers must have been constantly employed in the business department of the Scriptorium alone.
In the Scriptorium all the business, now transacted by half a dozen agents and their clerks, was carried on.
A subsequent abbot, Simon de Gorham, initiated the custom that the abbot should always maintain one writer in the scriptorium at his own expense.
At St. Albans the Abbot Paul built a scriptorium in which hired writers copied the MSS.
The poems of Caedmon were written first of all in the monastery of Whitby; so, too, the Northumbrian poet, Cynewulf, owes the preservation of his works to the scriptorium of the monastery he ultimately entered.
As an instance of the activity of the scriptorium may be quoted the famous library of York, which was composed of transcripts of the parchments collected by Biscop.
The formation of libraries and the work of the scriptorium occupied as high a place in the newly-established English monasteries as they did in those monasteries which served as models for them.
The scriptorium was a large apartment, where much work was done in transcribing books and illuminating them.
One of the departments of every monastery was the scriptorium or writing-office, where, during the dark ages, many precious books were copied and circulated, and no member was admitted except the heads of the house or on business.
View of the scriptorium alley of the cloisters at Gloucester, showing the recesses to hold the wooden carrels for the scribes or readers of manuscripts.
It is not easy to see why in this and other cases of the co-existence of a library and a scriptorium one room was not made to do duty for both.
Before his agitation was noticed, he had recovered sufficiently to ask permission to leave the scriptorium and seek the air in the close.
The days and the weeks slipped gently on, the routine of life in the scriptorium endearing itself more and more to the newcomer's heart.
The scriptorium at St. Dunstan's was a large chamber which usually held about a dozen persons, but which at times permitted of as many as twenty working together.
Every volume had to be returned before the lights were lit, and work ceased in the scriptorium the instant the daylight failed.
Not only Annys grew to love his work and to take a great pride in it, but the absolute silence of the scriptorium soothed his shattered nerves.
Scriptorium work was considered equal to labour in the fields.
Numerous monasteries in England devoted much time to scriptorium work.
The work of each scriptorium was devoted first to the completion of the library of the individual monastery, and after that, to other houses, or to such patrons as were rich enough to order books to be transcribed for their own use.
As silence was obligatory in the scriptorium and library, as well as in the cloisters, they were forced to apply for the volumes which they desired by signs.
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