among them acquired "Moral

Century to a kind of destruction:

Middle Ages as in Western

By the end of the 15th century, 35

multiplies (see also article

for Countess Louise of Savoy

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts

number of surviving European

the spread of parchment.

written on the parchment was scratched out

then only a few have reached us

mostly in monasteries.

ancient and medieval Latin,