Monastic copyists preserved virtually all surviving classical Roman texts

Evidence

In the centuries that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, book production and book collecting took place largely within the domain of monastic communities … Many monasteries also played an important role in salvaging the remains of Roman culture by copying manuscripts containing the works of classical authors; indeed, this is how virtually all classical texts have come down to us today. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 75

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how libraries originated and the transmission chain of texts from antiquity. — connects to: Textual survival in the Middle Ages depended on monastic usefulness — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 571
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 75