The most common form

so expensive material

the best poets of his era and

European glory, and even after

secular brotherhoods of scribes.

Preserved about 300 thousand.

manuscripts held onto

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

By the end of the 15th century, 35

Libraries of the Carolingian era). IN

Duke de Montosier

books in ancient times was papyrus

, text and illustrations to which

term manuscript (late lat.manuscriptum,