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Why were bestiaries so expensive?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 2/24/2020

They were so expensive because so little people could read and write and bestiaries were so hard because each book was hand writen and took years to do and people like monks were trained to write them so they didn't make a mistake.

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