Armarium

The armarium (Latin armarium "cabinet") generally designates a cabinet, a container or a library room.

etymology

The term is derived from arma (Latin for "weapon") and in its original meaning it was a weapons cabinet. The diminutive is armāriŏlum (Latin for "cupboard"). Someone who uses an armārium is an armārius (armorer, librarian or, in monasteries, the cantor, as the custodian of the church records). A minor form can be armāria , -ae, f. be.

The armarium in the monastery

Example of an armarium in the Moreruela monastery

In Christian usage, it refers to the part of a monastery where the monks store their books. In the monasteries of the 12th and 13th centuries, when large library rooms had not yet established themselves because the small book holdings simply made such a spatial program unnecessary, the armarium is a wall niche in the east wall of the cloister between the chapter house and the church portal. The armarium was administered by a cantor who kept it locked during the time of physical work and the monks' sleep times and while eating. A candle burned in front of the armarium and the shelves built into shelves held the books. Adapted doors gave the books some protection. After the emergence of larger library holdings, Armarien were occasionally rebuilt into graves for deserving abbots. B. in the Eberbach monastery in the Rheingau .

Other uses of the term

• armārium : cupboard for weapons, tools, clothes, money, jewelry or books
• armārium : monument, burial tomb
• armārium promptuarium : cupboard for food
• armārium librorum : bookcase
• Armarium Eucharistiae : tabernacle
• armārium reliquiarum : reliquary cabinet near the high altar
• armārium muricibus praefixum : an instrument of torture and execution
• armārium parieti insertum : wall cupboard
• vasorum argenteorum armārium : silver cabinet
• Unguentum armārium : weapon ointment
• armārium imaginum : cabinet or shrine for Roman ancestral masks

But you can also find the armarium in the sacristy .

literature

• Tom Graber, Martina Schattkowsky (ed.): The Cistercians and their libraries. Book ownership and written use of the Altzelle monastery in a European comparison . Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86583-325-9 .
• Hilmar Tilgner: Armarium and library building. The library rooms in the Cistercian monastery Eberbach from the 12th century to 1810 , in: Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte, Vol. 23 (1998), pp. 132–181.
• Edgar Lehmann: The library rooms of the German monasteries in the Middle Ages . (Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte 2), Berlin 1957, pp. 2–7.
• August Mau : Armarium 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 1176 f.
• August Mau: Armarium 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Sp. 1177.

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Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Armarium , in: Otto Lueger : Lexicon of the entire technology and its auxiliary sciences . Vol. 1, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1904, p. 298.
2. ↑ armariolum , in: Karl Ernst Georges : Detailed Latin-English pocket dictionary . Hannover 1913 (Reprint Darmstadt 1998), 8th edition, Volume 1, Sp. 577.
3. ^ Armarium in Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 1. Altenburg 1857, p. 723.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} armarium , in: Karl Ernst Georges: Comprehensive Latin-German concise dictionary . Hannover 1913 (Reprint Darmstadt 1998), 8th edition, Volume 1, Sp. 577-578.
5. ↑ August Mau : Armarium 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 1176 f.
6. ↑ August Mau: Armarium 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Sp. 1177.
7. ^ Wall cupboard , in: Karl Ernst Georges: Small German-Latin concise dictionary . Hanover / Leipzig 1910 (Reprint Darmstadt 1999), 7th edition, Col. 2637.
8. ^ Armarium , in: Karl Ernst Georges: Small German-Latin concise dictionary . Hanover / Leipzig 1910 (reprint Darmstadt 1999), 7th edition, Col. 2133.
9. ^ Armarium , in: Pierer's Universal Lexikon . Volume 18. Altenburg 1864, p. 736.
10. ↑ Imāgo , in: Pierer's Universal Lexicon . Volume 8, Altenburg 1859, p. 830.