the spread of parchment.

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

so expensive material

Since manuscripts are subject to deterioration

only a few survived.

which is carried out by the printing

... As a rule, the manuscript is called

Duke de Montosier

At the same time, many antique

Preserved about 300 thousand.

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

and was erased, and on cleaned

Middle Ages as in Western