Since manuscripts are subject to deterioration

number of surviving European

collection of poems composed

A handwritten book is a book

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

Century to a kind of destruction:

and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts

secular brotherhoods of scribes.

By the end of the 15th century, 35

written on the parchment was scratched out

only a few survived.

works of art.

reproduced by hand, in contrast

multiplies (see also article