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Word: scriptorium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-taught (a process that saved him from mere pedantry), Murray could pick up languages as if he were shopping for groceries. For a time a schoolmaster and later a London bank clerk, Murray was drawn into the dictionary project by his work with the Philological Society. In his "Scriptorium," a room lined with hundreds of pigeonholes stuffed with more than 5 million quotation slips, Murray presided like a medieval abbot. Originally he had proposed to devote a mere ten years of his life to the great work. Had he known what it would cost him, Murray might never have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Logomania | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...matched perfectly. Convinced of the map's authenticity, Witten in 1959 sold all three, reportedly for nearly $ 1 million, to an anonymous buyer, who in turn donated them to Yale. There, scholars determined that the map had been drawn about 1440, probably by a monk in a Swiss scriptorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A $1 Million Forgery? | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

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