I've been fascinated by her posts on making medieval inks & manuscripts, so have just preordered 'Medieval Scriptorium' by Sara Charles. It's due out next week, & a review by Richard Ovenden is at https://archive.is/WFSlG.

[Edit: original paywalled again, link replaced with archived version.]

Here's the book description on Sara's website: https://www.teachingmanuscripts.com/publications

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Tábara (Zamora), un pueblo ligado a la historia de uno de los monasterios más importantes del país.
#Tabara #Zamora #CyL #scriptorium #iglesia #romanico #monasterio #torre

The scriptorium refers to the writing rooms that have been created in monasteries since late antiquity, in which sacred and sometimes also profane texts are reproduced by hand. In scientific literature, scriptorium is also used as a synonym for writing school for the scribes working there and to characterize the origin of their products: "Handwriting from the scriptorium of ..." #scriptorium #writing #antiquity #monastery #books #history