mostly in monasteries.

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

Since manuscripts are subject to deterioration

Preserved about 300 thousand.

and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts

Duke de Montosier

Century to a kind of destruction:

then only a few have reached us

Since the era of Charlemagne

number of surviving European

drafts of literary works

so expensive material

secular brotherhoods of scribes.

commonly associated with