only a few survived.

The most common form

term manuscript (late lat.manuscriptum,

for Countess Louise of Savoy

and was erased, and on cleaned

handwritten by the author.

Since the era of Charlemagne

then only a few have reached us

Century to a kind of destruction:

(palimpsests). In the XIII-XV centuries in

collection of poems composed

, text and illustrations to which

consists of the book itself

A handwritten book is a book