and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts

so expensive material

Since manuscripts are subject to deterioration

number of surviving European

from a printed book, reproduction

Manuscript is a collective name for texts

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

Libraries of the Carolingian era). IN

number of surviving European

then only a few have reached us

The most common form

reproduced by hand, in contrast

written on the parchment was scratched out

manuscripts significantly