Middle Ages as in Western

reproduced by hand, in contrast

manuscripts significantly

Preserved about 300 thousand.

mostly in monasteries.

which is carried out by the printing

The most common form

consists of the book itself

Since manuscripts are subject to deterioration

, text and illustrations to which

which is carried out by the printing

which is carried out by the printing

book about the chess of love ", created by

from a printed book, reproduction

Since the era of Charlemagne

Manuscript is a collective name for texts

then only a few have reached us

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

way. Handwritten book

At the same time, many antique

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

so expensive material

(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in

for Countess Louise of Savoy