Immerse yourself in a scene from "Beauty and the Beast" with a visit to this breathtaking library, situated in the photogenic Austrian Alps.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A delegation of 47 parliamentarians from 10 countries visited St. Catherine’s Monastery, where they met with Dr. Khaled ...

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 ...

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 ...