Slowly I looked at the other pages which the monk had copied, which were being let to dry.
It had a nine-story library where monks meticulously copied books and documents so that individual scholars could have their own collections.
The religious significance of Andreas may be the very reason why this text survived, as monks copied it in their manuscripts because of its religious message.
Throughout the Middle Ages, monks copied entire texts as a way of disseminating and preserving religious texts.
As the Roman Empire disintegrated, Irish monks copied Western literature.
He wanted, somehow, to echo that strange spiral which the old monk had copied from the stone and shown him up in Kells.
Its monks were copying away ferociously in the Scriptorium.
His father would pay a hundred monks to copy the tale and bind it in leather for sale and private readings among the nobility.
Some monasteries held a scriptorium where monks would write or copy books.
Some of the works that the monks copied were by medical writers, and reading and copying these works helped create a store of medical knowledge.