Oldest surviving manuscripts of Ancient Greece and Rome
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| - | [[Cornelius Gallus]] and the [[oldest surviving]] [[manuscript]] of [[Latin poetry]]. | + | Ironically, the [[manuscripts]] that were being most carefully preserved in the libraries of [[Classical antiquity|Antiquity]] are virtually all lost. [[Papyrus]] has a life of at most a century or two in relatively [[moist]] Italian or Greek conditions; only those works copied onto [[parchment]], usually after the general conversion to Christianity, have survived, and by no means all of those. |
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Ironically, the manuscripts that were being most carefully preserved in the libraries of Antiquity are virtually all lost. Papyrus has a life of at most a century or two in relatively moist Italian or Greek conditions; only those works copied onto parchment, usually after the general conversion to Christianity, have survived, and by no means all of those.
Cornelius Gallus is often cited as the oldest surviving manuscript of Latin poetry.
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