scriptorium

We also see in this final room an earlier work, Jones' frontispiece for Gill's tract 'Christianity and Art', 1927; this small wood-engraving, known as The Artist can be read as a kind of self-portrait, and as a vision of the universal artist, imagined here in a setting which recalls a monastic scriptorium or portraits of the Evangelists.

At the time, the castle was used as a scriptorium, where friars wrote manuscripts, and was connected to the chapel by secret tunnels.

See also the image database of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts hosted at Berkeley: Digital Scriptorium, http://bancroft.berkeley edu/digitalscriptorium/; see also Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Gallica, http://gallica.bnf.fr/html/manuscrits/manuscrits.

In the second part of my Arthur trilogy, my young hero visits a scriptorium, meets the monks at work there, and receives an unexpected gift:

Readers get a behind-the-scenes tour of the creation of each volume, with a fascinating window into the activities, challenges, and struggles at Donald Jackson s Scriptorium in Wales.

There was also a scriptorium for copying manuscripts.

V I watched you walk down the isle vested In your tweed coat, its flecks like blood, Clasping books to your side, your hand Shaped more to a plough shaft than a pen, Your poems all sphagnum and scriptorium. From behind the rostrum your loaning voice Quickened the still auditorium.

Among his topics are the legacy of Bede, Spanish adoptionism and the Frankish reaction, the Tours scriptorium, The Old and New Testaments; cultivating prayer, theology for the laity, and the poet and his friends.

The monasteries allowed the scriptorium to develop and the wonderful hand-painted Books of Hours, prayer books for the wealthy few, are still world treasures.

Basing "Trouble At The Scriptorium" in the 13th century, the tale begins with Harley, son of a jester.

Trouble at the Scriptorium is a historical novel for young adults, set in medieval England.

Due to British weather the 2013 production is being presented inside the cathedral, metres from the ancient scriptorium where they were written.