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How much do we know about the transmission of Roman non-fiction between initial composition and the early middle ages? Tacitus' "Annals" was found in two monasteries 1500 km apart—do we have any ideas whether they were privately replicated or "publicly" published? What about Cicero's letters?

by /u/ChubbyHistorian in /r/AskHistorians

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