ancient and medieval Latin,

then only a few have reached us

secular brotherhoods of scribes.

so expensive material

manuscripts significantly

reproduced by hand, in contrast

term manuscript (late lat.manuscriptum,

manuscripts held onto

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

drafts of literary works

Middle Ages as in Western

elements (case, binding).

"Julia's Garland" (fr. Guirlande de Julie)

consists of the book itself