handwritten books were made,

among them acquired "Moral

term manuscript (late lat.manuscriptum,

secular brotherhoods of scribes.

reproduced by hand, in contrast

From many manuscripts of Antiquity

manuscripts held onto

number of surviving European

Of his works, he is especially famous

so expensive material

for Countess Louise of Savoy

text carrier and protective

the best poets of his era and

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri