the best poets of his era and

ancient and medieval Latin,

Manuscript is a collective name for texts

books in ancient times was papyrus

only a few survived.

and was erased, and on cleaned

By the end of the 15th century, 35

Century to a kind of destruction:

Libraries of the Carolingian era). IN

handwritten books were made,

written on the parchment was scratched out

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

manuscripts held onto

consists of the book itself