Scriptorium: alternatives and connections

Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one ves…

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over th…

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic buil…

of Abbey

The superior or head of an abbey.

The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing c…

One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, c…

An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.

The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.

A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestrie…

A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the…

An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants…

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one…

The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.

A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.