consists of the book itself

the spread of parchment.

and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts

Middle Ages as in Western

then only a few have reached us

term manuscript (late lat.manuscriptum,

(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in

then only a few have reached us

By the end of the 15th century, 35

only a few survived.

At the same time, many antique

handwritten by the author.

Preserved about 300 thousand.

from a printed book, reproduction