Monastic Scribe
from Printing Transforms Knowledge.
The Day the Universe Changed: A Personal View by James Burke, Program 4. Courtesy Churchill Films.

Before the invention of printing, books were laboriously handwritten by scribes working in the scriptoria of monasteries.

Antes de la invención de la imprenta, los libros eran laboriosamente escritos a mano por los escribas que trabajaban en los escritorios de los monasterios.