Preserved about 300 thousand.

drafts of literary works

from lat. manus - "hand" and scribo - "I write") [1]

secular brotherhoods of scribes.

Europe, and in Ancient Russia

manuscripts attributed to Robins

number of surviving European

(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in

By the end of the 15th century, 35

Century to a kind of destruction:

which is carried out by the printing

reproduced by hand, in contrast

Since manuscripts are subject to deterioration

European glory, and even after