term manuscript (late lat.manuscriptum,

then only a few have reached us

ancient and medieval Latin,

and was erased, and on cleaned

A handwritten book is a book

Preserved about 300 thousand.

or their samples written

"Julia's Garland" (fr. Guirlande de Julie)

Western Europe also formed

From many manuscripts of Antiquity

collection of poems composed

reproduced by hand, in contrast

Century to a kind of destruction:

Europe, and in Ancient Russia

number of surviving European