| During the Middle Ages, the scriptoria and workshops of European religious houses took a strictly instrumental approach. |
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| A limited form of mass production was able to be achieved in large scriptoria contained in monasteries. |
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| The saga literature of Ireland which has survived from earliest times owes its preservation to the monastic scriptoria. |
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| We may have come a long way from monks writing in scriptoria. |
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| From the time of the 1st-century-bc orator Cicero there is evidence of large scriptoria turning out copies of books for sale. |
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| By the 9th century, most monasteries had writing rooms or scriptoria. |
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| After all, it was assumed that all monks could read and write. Monasteries also contained libraries and scriptoria, or writing rooms, in which manuscripts were copied. |
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| Bibliography was manageable when books were still manuscripts copied out in the scriptoria of medieval European monasteries. |
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| The other one will deal with Chancelleries princières et scriptoria, du Xe au XIVe siècle. |
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| Whether they were to serve the purposes of missionaries, monks, or emperors these manuscripts were mostly produced in the scriptoria or cloisters of abbeys and monasteries. |
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| This procedure closely resembles that of modern book production, except that in the scriptoria each step in the preparation of a manuscript was repeated for each copy of a work. |
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| These are, without exception, manuscripts from the Middle Ages, and come from various scriptoria. |
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| Centres of outstanding artistic creativity emerged from the scriptoria of the abbeys at the time, and the Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau was the most famous of all. |
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| During the following century scriptoria in southern England produced a considerable number of books of this kind, filled with flickering colour and glinting gold and intended for ceremonial liturgical use. |
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| The College of Arms maintains an ancient English tradition of manuscript writing and illumination which can be traced back to early monastic scriptoria. |
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| All the manuscripts which contain Old High German texts were written in ecclesiastical scriptoria by scribes whose main task was writing in Latin rather than German. |
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