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CW: Long thread/eof
(4/8)
...they would *exchange* (=lend) there copies of #papyri to other #libraries to be copied and thus be accessible to local #scolars.
If I remember correctly, and of course there is the possibility of variation between countries, this principle was continued by #monastries with books for hundreds of years.
(#Monchs used to be the only ones to be able to read and write, apart from some very few #aristocrats.)It may not be older than...
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CW: Long thread/eof
(4/8)
...they would *exchange* (=lend) there copies of #papyri to other #libraries to be copied and thus be accessible to local #scolars.
If I remember correctly, and of course there is the possibility of variation between countries, this principle was continued by #monastries with books for hundreds of years.
(#Monchs used to be the only ones to be able to read and write, apart from some very few #aristocrats.)It may not be older than...
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CW: Long thread/eof
(4/8)
...they would *exchange* (=lend) there copies of #papyri to other #libraries to be copied and thus be accessible to local #scolars.
If I remember correctly, and of course there is the possibility of variation between countries, this principle was continued by #monastries with books for hundreds of years.
(#Monchs used to be the only ones to be able to read and write, apart from some very few #aristocrats.)It may not be older than...
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CW: Long thread/eof
(4/8)
...they would *exchange* (=lend) there copies of #papyri to other #libraries to be copied and thus be accessible to local #scolars.
If I remember correctly, and of course there is the possibility of variation between countries, this principle was continued by #monastries with books for hundreds of years.
(#Monchs used to be the only ones to be able to read and write, apart from some very few #aristocrats.)It may not be older than...
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CW: Long thread/eof
(4/8)
...they would *exchange* (=lend) there copies of #papyri to other #libraries to be copied and thus be accessible to local #scolars.
If I remember correctly, and of course there is the possibility of variation between countries, this principle was continued by #monastries with books for hundreds of years.
(#Monchs used to be the only ones to be able to read and write, apart from some very few #aristocrats.)It may not be older than...