handwritten by the author.

reproduced by hand, in contrast

or their samples written

the spread of parchment.

Preserved about 300 thousand.

By the end of the 15th century, 35

(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in

and was erased, and on cleaned

then only a few have reached us

written on the parchment was scratched out

book about the chess of love ", created by

drafts of literary works

bride, Julie d'Angenne.

and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts