scrivenry

Noun

scrivenery (countable and uncountable, plural scriveneries)

1. (uncountable) The practice or work of a scrivener.
   • And yet we have notable penmen at head-quarters, who are at their vocation night and day, and who injure their temper and manners by incessant scrivenery, the results of which are buried in the pigeon-holes of Whitehall, never to be seen even in the lively pages of a blue-book.1856, W[illiam] H[oward] Russell, The War; From the Death of Lord Raglan to the Evacuation of the Crimea, London: G. Routledge & Co., page 247
2. (countable, historical) A place where scriveners work; a scriptorium.
   • At the bottom of folio 109 there is an entry which reads, The Law at Twickenham for mery tales. This is, apparently, a reference to a scrivenery and staff of skilled penmen maintained at Twickenham by Francis [Bacon] and his brother Anthony Bacon.1906, Harold Bayley, The Shakespeare Symphony; an Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama, London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., page 242