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scrinium

[ skrin-ee-uhm ]

noun

plural scrinia
  1. a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of scrinium1

< Latin ²õ³¦°ùÄ«²Ô¾±³Ü³¾; shrine
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Example Sentences

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Now it is ofttimes a knave, and even the devil himself, who rules this scrinium, and they boast that it is ruled by the Holy Spirit!

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Rolls written in the first of these ways were simply rolled up and kept in cylinders of like shape, sometimes several together, with a title tag at the end of each, in a box called a scrinium.

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Below is a cylindrical box, called scrinium and capsa, or capsula, in which the manuscripts were placed vertically, the titles at the top.

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Rome, with shoemaker at work in front of a press, 38; in Villa Balestra, with physician reading, ibid. scrinium: box for carrying rolls, 30 Scriptorium: endowment, at Ely, 79; at S. Albans, 80 Scrivener, Matt.: bequeathes £50 to Univ.

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A reliquary preserved at Clogher in 1300 was known as the membra, which, according to one explanation, was the equivalent of memoriale scrinium, memorial shrine.

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