secular brotherhoods of scribes.

One of the most skilled calligraphers

among them acquired "Moral

inventions of typography

elements (case, binding).

number of surviving European

handwritten books were made,

term manuscript (late lat.manuscriptum,

Century to a kind of destruction:

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

then only a few have reached us

and was erased, and on cleaned

the best poets of his era and

from a printed book, reproduction