Scriptorim: the writing room of the monastery

Abstract

The copying of the manuscript have been done in the monastery throughout the madieval ages, from their earliest period in the East as one of its manual labor.
The place of the writing within the monastery indicates three forms such as : a large room in which several monks could work together : a small room for one or two persons; and, a part of the cloister, which later have been extended as the carrel.
The arrangement of the work and the provision of materials for writing were the responsibilities of armarius or librarian ; strict silence was enforced in the room ; the upkeep of the scriptorium was furnished usually with a portion of the monastic revenue and sometimes by the endowments ; certain eatimation of the cost of bookmaking by the contemporary records of the price and wage.
The scriptorium have ceased their works at the end of the middle ages, leaving behind them their books accumulated during a thousand years.