new texts were rewritten

secular brotherhoods of scribes.

drafts of literary works

works of art.

Libraries of the Carolingian era). IN

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

A handwritten book is a book

from lat. manus - "hand" and scribo - "I write") [1]

Preserved about 300 thousand.

collection of poems composed

Many calligraphers have acquired

books in ancient times was papyrus

text carrier and protective

At the same time, many antique

the best poets of his era and

XVII century was Nicholas Jarry [fr].

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

Century to a kind of destruction:

(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in

books in ancient times was papyrus

handwritten synonym

, text and illustrations to which

By the end of the 15th century, 35

Since manuscripts are subject to deterioration