text: Mark Antony supposedly gave Cleopatra over 200,000 scrolls ( taken from the great Library of Pergamum ) for the library as a wedding gift , but this is regarded by some historians as a propagandist claim meant to show Antony 's allegiance to Egypt rather than Rome .
simplified: Mark Antony supposedly gave Cleopatra over 200,000 scrolls ( taken from the great Library of Pergamum ) for the library as a wedding gift .