scriptorium
- n a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts
- The artists and programmers of Anatomical Travelogue huddle over their desks like monks in a scriptorium.
- By the light of a single fluttering candle, a tall solemn priest sits bowed above a resplendent manuscript in his solitary scriptorium.
- There, scholars determined that the map had been drawn about 1440, probably by a monk in a Swiss scriptorium.