The most common form

At the same time, many antique

Since the era of Charlemagne

manuscripts underwent in the Middle

, text and illustrations to which

XVII century was Nicholas Jarry [fr].

reproduced by hand, in contrast

books in ancient times was papyrus

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

or their samples written

and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts

Century to a kind of destruction:

Manuscript is a collective name for texts

so expensive material