which houses the largest monastic library in the world. The Admont Abbey Library is significant for more than books, however: ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic ...

Wilson surmises that Constantine Tischendorf, a German scholar who described a palimpsest he saw in a Greek monastic library in 1846, tore out the page for further examination. The French owners ...

It's quite typical of a monastic library book from this period. It's quite functional, written in a small neat script. There's not very much decoration, although there is a rather lovely red ...

The books and manuscripts in the historic Library of the Dean and Chapter date from the 16th century. Our archives go back to the tenth century, when the Abbey was founded as a monastery. We also hold ...

The Convent of St Gall, a perfect example of a great Carolingian monastery, was, from the 8th century to its secularization in 1805, one of the most important in Europe. Its library is one of the ...