| The discovery of two inkwells and a plastered table and bench strongly suggested that one of the rooms was a scriptorium, a room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts. |
| The majestic enthroned Christ clearly has his ancestry in Ottonian compositions from the nearby scriptorium at Echternach. |
| Not all monks could aspire to the culture of the intellectual élite of the scriptorium, let alone the composition of original works. |
| The budding saint had probably spent that period in the monastic scriptorium where his knowledge of Latin made him a valuable employee. |
| Such an elaborate manuscript must have been the work of a well-equipped scriptorium. |
| By chance, a monk laboring in a scriptorium somewhere or other in the ninth century copied the poem before it moldered away. |
