The illuminated chronicle text dates to the 14 th century while the printed text in type more readable to us was produced in 1559. The manuscript is written in Latin whereas the transcribed printed book was translated into early modern Hungarian. The entries have been altered to represent later developments. Marcus de Kalt, fl. Szekely, Istvan, ca.
Many manuscripts are fragmentary .
The Old Norse text of republican laws shown earlier in this exhibit is one good example. The manuscripts may have been taken apart for one reason or another, or they have been partially damaged. Sometimes all of the existing copies of the same text have missing parts, so scholars must use the remaining pieces to put the puzzle together. This manuscript copy of the Iliad was long ago cut apart so that only an estimated one-quarter of the illustrations and very little text survive. Urs Graf, 1955.