Scriniary
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It wasn't all that easy, but I did manage to come up with wee bit of additional information on this one.
According to the archives of askoxford.com, it's [SKRYE-nee-err-ee] a keeper of the archives, an archivist. From a Latin word meaning 'a box for books and papers; a writing desk'.
Great new obscurity, Grogie, thanks!
According to the archives of askoxford.com, it's [SKRYE-nee-err-ee] a keeper of the archives, an archivist. From a Latin word meaning 'a box for books and papers; a writing desk'.
Great new obscurity, Grogie, thanks!
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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A scriniarius was the keeper of the scrinium.
A scrinium was a case, chest, or box for keeping books, papers, letters, etc.; a book-box, letter-case, escritoire.
Under the later emperors, there were four kinds of public scrinia; memoriae, epistolarum, libellorum, and epistolarum Graecarum.
Information gleaned from a Latin-English Lexicon that has been re-bound and lost its title pages. The editor's preface is from 1850, for what that's worth.
A scriniarius was the keeper of the scrinium.
A scrinium was a case, chest, or box for keeping books, papers, letters, etc.; a book-box, letter-case, escritoire.
Under the later emperors, there were four kinds of public scrinia; memoriae, epistolarum, libellorum, and epistolarum Graecarum.
Information gleaned from a Latin-English Lexicon that has been re-bound and lost its title pages. The editor's preface is from 1850, for what that's worth.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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