scriptorium

===__Scriptorium__**:** literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European [|monasteries] devoted to the copying of manuscripts by monastic [|scribes] late 15th-century miniature of [|Jean Miélot] depicts the author at work

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