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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, a case or box, generally cylindrical in shape, for holding rolls of manuscript.
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It is one of a list of such terms, including saccula, cella, arca, thesaurus, forulus, loculumenta, cubilia, and scrinium (to name but a few) ,22 that have been recently plumbed to reveal the depth and continuity of the lineage of architectural mnemonics in the craft of Western thought.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Eo senatum advocat, magnaque frequentia ejus ordinis, Volturcium cum legatis introducit, Flaccum praetorem scrinium cum litteris, quas a legatis acceperat, eodem afferre jubet.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Here, in the scrinium, or archivium sanctæ Romanæ ecclesiæ, the documents must have been registered and kept in a definite order, for extracts and copies still in existence preserve traces of their numbering.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The scrinium, the regionary notaries, the higher officials such as the primicerius and the secundarius, the arrangement of the Regesta by indictions, etc., are all probably imitations of the practice of the later empire.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Now this scrinium is oftentimes directed by some knave and the devil himself, whilst it boasts that it is directed by the Holy Ghost.
Articles 19-27. Twenty-Seven Articles Respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate 1909
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You may have settled a matter in the best possible way according to the canon law, but the Pope has his scrinium pectoris, to which all law must bow in all the world.
Articles 19-27. Twenty-Seven Articles Respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate 1909
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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.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899
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Carbo's brought Crassus a letter-case (_scrinium_) full of compromising papers.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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When a number of rolls had to be carried from one place to another, they were put into a box (_scrinium_ or _capsa_).
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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It is indeed, not merely possible, but even probable, that the existence of this manuscript was unknown to the Monkish biographers of St. Patrick and St. Mac-Carthen, who speak of the box as a scrinium or reliquary only.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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