Benedictine Abbey Melk, Austria (library detail). The library houses about 1,800 manuscripts from the 9th Century, including a copy of Virgil from the 10th-11th Century. Only in 1997 was a fragment of a copy of the Nibelungenlied from the 13 Century discovered. There are also 750 incunabula. Of a database of about 100,000 volumes. On display were recently e.g. two copies of the printed by Anton Koberger Nuremberg Chronicle. (by rotraud)

Benedictine Abbey Melk, Austria (library detail). The library houses about 1,800 manuscripts from the 9th Century, including a copy of Virgil from the 10th-11th Century. Only in 1997 was a fragment of a copy of the Nibelungenlied from the 13 Century discovered. There are also 750 incunabula. Of a database of about 100,000 volumes. On display were recently e.g. two copies of the printed by Anton Koberger Nuremberg Chronicle. (by rotraud)

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