, text and illustrations to which

Europe, and in Ancient Russia

From many manuscripts of Antiquity

commonly associated with

drafts of literary works

XVII century was Nicholas Jarry [fr].

By the end of the 15th century, 35

so expensive material

manuscripts significantly

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

text carrier and protective

only a few survived.

(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in

and was erased, and on cleaned