How much survives and how much is lost to history?

[MichelleL11]

Here is another estimate of how many manuscripts survive, based on a statistical method first developed in ecology called an unseen species model.

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As indicated in the summary of the full article, the authors use this to estimate that over 90% of manuscripts have been lost -- for a wide variety of reasons.