It has been estimated that there were about 200 books in the monastic library.

In 546 Victor of Capua discovered such a mixed manuscript ; and, further corrected by Victor so as to provide a very pure Vulgate text within a modified Diatessaron sequence, this harmony, the Codex Fuldensis, survives in the monastic library at Fulda, where it served as the source text for vernacular harmonies in Old High German, Eastern Frankish and Old Saxon ( the alliterative poem ' Heliand ').

A bird's-eye view of Canterbury Cathedral and its monastic buildings, made in about 1165 and known as the " waterworks plan " is preserved in the Eadwine Psalter in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The former monastic library of Worcester contained a considerable number of manuscripts which are, among other libraries, now scattered over Cambridge, London ( British Library ), Oxford Bodleian, and the Cathedral library at Worcester of today.

In the 1530s and 1540s, the royal library was reorganised to accommodate hundreds of books that were previously kept in monastic collections.

Another theory posits that the items were from a monastic library and hidden due to threats from Muslims who were moving eastward.

It is important to note that Cassiodorius did include the classical texts of ancient Rome and Greece in the monastic library.

It appears in an inventory of the monastic library done in 1461.

It was closely guarded for many centuries in the monastic library of St Irenaeus at Lyon.

A monastic school, the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, was founded in the 12th century, and the monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection.

This Codex Aretinus was discovered in 1884 by the Italian scholar Gian Francesco Gamurrini, who found the manuscript in a monastic library in Arezzo.

While an exact identification of the compilers and forgers is probably impossible, Klaus Zechiel-Eckes has proven that they used manuscripts from the monastic library of Corbie.

Many of the school's buildings on the Green are leased from the cathedral, including College Hall ( formerly the monastic refectory, for many years the school's only teaching hall, and currently an assembly hall ) and Edgar Tower, the medieval gatehouse to College Green, which for many years housed the school library.

On the other hand, the monastic library and some other treasures were transferred to Moscow or St Petersburg.

Another famous document from the monastic library is the Codex Aureus of Lorsch.

While explaining his proposal for the library at Washington University, Kahn had used the example of the cloistered carrels at the monastic library at Dunham, England, to explain his " desire to find a space construction system in which the carrels were inherent in the support which harbored them ... Wall-bearing masonry construction with its niches and vaults has the appealing structural order to provide naturally such spaces.

The monastic library was one of the richest in Russia and included such books as the Siysky Gospel from 1339 and the 16th-century album of 500 Western religious etchings adapted to Eastern Orthodox canonical requirements.

The imposing Porta is the gateway into the monastic buildings of the cathedral, and now houses the school's library, classrooms and a conference room, as well as the school's archive.

Archaeological research was carried out after 1985 for a couple of years, so today the remains of two churches, a royal residence, a library, part of the fortified wall with the gate and several monastic cells can be seen.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

He built the monastic church of St Peter at Gloucester ( now Gloucester Cathedral, though nothing of his fabric remains ), then part of his diocese of Worcester.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

In Pali texts, injunctions to abstain from violence and involvement with military affairs are directed at members of the sangha ; later Mahayana texts, which often generalize monastic norms to laity, require this of lay people as well.

Columba became a pupil at the monastic school at Clonard Abbey, situated on the River Boyne in modern County Meath.

In June, 1144, the King and Queen visited the newly built monastic church at Saint-Denis.

The most remarkable are the monastic foundations at Humor ( hoo mor ), Moldoviţa ( mol do vee ' tsa ), Arbore ( are ' bo ray ) and Voroneţ ( vo ro nets ).

At 16, he entered the Russian Orthodox monastic life at the Trinity-St. Sergius Hermitage near St. Petersburg.

* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

Therefore the elect were probably at least partially monastic.

To eliminate any possible doubts, Nichiren decided to spend some time at Mount Kōya, the centre of esoteric Buddhism, and also in Nara, Japan ’ s ancient capital, where he studied the Ritsu sect, which emphasized strict monastic discipline and ordination. During this time, he became convinced of the pre-eminence of the Lotus Sutra and in 1253, returned to Seichoji.

While in Rome he assisted at a council then being held concerning certain questions on " the life and monastic peace of monks ", and, on his departure, took with him to England the decree of the council together with letters from the pope to Lawrence, Archbishop of Canterbury, and to all the clergy, to King Ethelbert of Kent, and to all the English people " concerning what was to be observed by the Church of England ".

The monastic timetable or Horarium would begin at midnight with the service, or " office ", of Matins ( today also called the Office of Readings ), followed by the morning office of Lauds at 3am.

Against his father's wishes he devoted himself at an early age to the monastic life.

In a passing way presents the community of Thélème, which while serving to poke fun at monastic institutions, can also be seen as an ideal society dedicated to the cultivation of love.

William gave generously to the church ; from 1035 to 1066, the Norman aristocracy founded at least 20 new monastic houses, including William's two monasteries in Caen, a remarkable expansion of religious life in the duchy.

* John Cassian, Christian theologian, settled at a monastery in Marseille ( Gaul ), he organized monastic communities after a eastern model ( approximate date ).

* Anthony the Great dies at his hermitage near the Red Sea in mid-January at age 103 ( approximate ), having preached against Arianism and tried to codify guidelines for monastic life.

Initially the kingdom was evangelised by Irish monks from the Celtic Church, based at Iona in modern Scotland, which led to a flowering of monastic life.

* July 17 – Luther enters the monastic life at an Augustinian cloister in Erfurt.

Known as the pre-Christian traders and pirates of Scandinavian descents, they began to destroy the Christian monastic community on Lindisfarne Island, the Jarrow monastery, and the monastery on Iona Island.

And the monastic communities were supposed to be made up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors, their spiritual athleticism.

This may be because Wilfrid's opulent lifestyle was uncongenial to Bede's monastic mind ; it may also be that the events of Wilfrid's life, divisive and controversial as they were, simply did not fit with Bede's theme of the progression to a unified and harmonious church.

In the English Reformation, all monasteries were dissolved and their lands confiscated by the Crown, forcing their Catholic members to flee into exile on the Continent, although during the 19th century they were able to return to England, including to Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, one of the few great monastic churches to survive the Dissolution.

In Ireland, crannogs tend to reach a floruit during the Early Historic period when they were the homes and retreats of kings, lords, prosperous farmers and occasionally socially marginalised groups such as monastic hermits or metalsmiths who could work in isolation.

These works were all hand copied and thus rarely available, beyond wealthy patrons or monastic men of learning: they were expensive, and usually written for those extending knowledge rather than those using it.

Some of the Syriac terms that Ephrem used to describe his community were later used to describe monastic communities, but the assertion that he was monk is anachronistic.

The monastic buildings and the cloister were completed first after which construction of the church took place during the period 1638-1641 and in 1646 it was dedicated to San Carlo Borromeo.

In autumn 1789, legislation abolished monastic vows and on 13 February 1790 all religious orders were dissolved.

The monastic state of the Teutonic Order () and its later German successor states of Prussia however never were part of the Holy Roman Empire.

It is not known where either St John of Sinai or St Hesychios were born, nor where they received their monastic formation.

This situation heightened tensions with some European nobility, especially as the Templars were indicating an interest in founding their own monastic state, just as the Teutonic Knights had done in Prussia and the Knights Hospitaller were doing with Rhodes.

The Templars were organised as a monastic order similar to Bernard's Cistercian Order, which was considered the first effective international organization in Europe.

At the time of their foundation, these were intended as monastic orders, whose members would act as simple soldiers protecting pilgrims.

" The early libraries located in monastic cloisters and associated with scriptoria were collections of lecterns with books chained to them.

In 1989 the monastic activities in the Valaam were resumed.

In the West, the most significant development occurred when the rules for monastic communities were written, the Rule of St Basil being credited with having been the first.

Childeric and Theuderic, bereft of their long hair ( Pepin was said to have kept the two severed manes as trophies ), were sent to live in monastic confinement.

The earliest original writings in Coptic language were the letters by St. Anthony of Egypt, first of the “ Desert Fathers .” During the 3rd and 4th centuries many ecclesiastics and monks wrote in Coptic, among them, St. Pachomius, whose monastic rule ( the first cenobitic rule, for solitary monks gathered in communities ) survives only in Coptic.