Before, in the middle of the fifteenth century, Gutenberg invented printing, books were written by hand. In the Middle Ages, patient scribes typed them manually. They were all manuscripts from Latin. manus - hand, scribere - write, or manuscripts. The work of the scribes was arduous, difficult, but its effects still impress. The books were then of great value, not only because of the limited availability of materials and decorations, but because of the few people who had such skills.
Most of the scribes were clergymen who wrote and rewritten various works in monastic scriptwriters. Religious books were the most popular. They were needed to celebrate the liturgy, to calculate movable holidays, to write down the lives of saints, in a word - to the functioning of the Church. No wonder that the Bible was most often transcribed at that time - the most important book. Rarely, however, the whole of the scripture was placed in one book - because of the volume of the Bible, it was limited to individual parts. The Gospels, that is, the books containing the text of all four Gospels, were very popular. Because in the Middle Ages, the end of the world was looked for, the Apocalypse of St. John the Evangelist.
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