2007年10月1日 星期一

credence, scriptoria



Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, was spotted Tuesday in Seattle, headed for meetings with executives at Microsoft, according to Fortune, lending credence to reports this week that Microsoft was contemplating a major investment in the fast-growing social network.

Of course medieval artists — many of whom were anonymous monks working as scribes in scriptoria — drew. All those manuscript illuminations had to start somewhere. But did they actually make drawings that survived and were cherished as drawings, or that filled practical needs that only drawing can?

scrip·to·ri·um (skrĭp-tôr'ē-əm, -tōr'-)

n.pl. -to·ri·ums or -to·ri·a (-tôr'ē-ə, -tōr'-).
A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records.

[Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptus, past participle of scrībere, to write.]
credence 
noun [U] FORMAL
acceptance, support or belief that something is true:
I'm not prepared to give credence to anonymous complaints.
His bruises added/lent credence to his statement that he had been beaten.

━━ n. 信用, 信任; キリスト教】聖別式用の祭器卓[だな]. give [attach, lend] credence to (話など)を信じる.

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