number of surviving European

European glory, and even after

so expensive material

multiplies (see also article

Libraries of the Carolingian era). IN

One of the most skilled calligraphers

secular brotherhoods of scribes.

which is carried out by the printing

XVII century was Nicholas Jarry [fr].

book about the chess of love ", created by

only a few survived.

handwritten by the author.

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

mostly in monasteries.