for Countess Louise of Savoy

Since the era of Charlemagne

Middle Ages as in Western

from lat. manus - "hand" and scribo - "I write") [1]

then only a few have reached us

drafts of literary works

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

Libraries of the Carolingian era). IN

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

text carrier and protective

the spread of parchment.

, text and illustrations to which

(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in

Many calligraphers have acquired