Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: scriptorium

Walking the Via Turonensis I had two books with me. One was a little booklet, telling me, where to turn left or right. The most important (absolut recommendable!) book was Anne Prache´s "Ile de France Romane". Anne Prache mentions, that in the hamlet of Mervilliers is a former church with a remarkable tympanum. In found a large farm in Mervilliers, entered and tried to find anybody to ask. But there was nobody at home. This was private property and I did feel uneasy, walking around, knocking on doors and shouting "Allo" and "Coucou"...... I finally found a small wooden garden gate. I pushed it open, entered, turned around - and there was the tympanum (previous uploads). Here is a closer look on the tympanum´s right side. A clerk working in a scriptorium, writing a contract. In front of him is his writing desk and there are even two ink bottles. The contract actually runs all around the semicular tympanum. As the details are very weathered it is hard to read, what the monk has written. Here is a French website about the tympanum: jfbradu.free.fr/mervilliers/index-mervilliers.htm