I didn't explain what I meant by that, sorry. So, I was thinking of setting up a communal laboratory in the library, exclusivelly for writting and copying texts (no one wants our books exploding).
I think we could take a size -3 room (100 sqft, this seems enough for a scriptorium in my opinion) and the following V&F:
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MAJOR VIRTUES
Greater Feature (a large table): +2 Aesthetics; 3 points on Texts -
MAJOR FLAWS
Elementary (Texts): –2 General Quality, –3 Upkeep
Greater Focus: –2 General Quality; 4 points among Specializations provided by the Feature.
This lab would require 3 seasons to set up and give us +7 to work from texts; each +3 gives a +1 in Language when writing, or +1 in Profession: Scribe when copying. The upkeep is not very high (and there are a few flaws, such as Undecorated, that could further reduce it).
I think all of us would have a 6 in Latin with this, and if we consider it an effective score of 6 we could start writing summae and tratactus way sooner (I mention this because I think a person with Latin 2 shouldn't be capable of reading by using the scriptorium, so maybe writting is also not valid); anyway, it would still speed things up a bit when we reach the proper score.
Hardly an urgent thing, but I thought we could plan in advance. ^^