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The Abbey library of Saint Gall is recognized as one of the richest medieval libraries in the world.
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In 1810 the invading French pillaged the Abbey taking with them most of the many treasures including a noteworthy library.
From knowledge of books held in the library at Malmesbury Abbey and available as source works, and from the identification of certain words particular to the local dialect found in the text, the transcription may have been made there.
The library at the Abbey is one of the richest medieval libraries in the world.
In 937 the Abbey was almost completely destroyed in a fire ; the library was undamaged, however.
This union considerably benefitted German-Polish relations ; on the occasion of the wedding, Emperor Henry IV commissioned to the St. Emmeram's Abbey the creation of Gospel Books to the Polish court, now kept in the library of the chapter in the Kraków Cathedral.
In an undated catalogue of the library at Peterborough Abbey, most likely from the 14th century, he is listed as a part author of ten books on medicine.
Illuminated manuscripts in the library dating from the 12th to 16th centuries include: the Eadwine Psalter, Canterbury ; Pocket Book of Hours, Reims ; Missal from the Royal Abbey of Saint Denis, Paris ; the Simon Marmion Book of Hours, Bruges ; 1524 Charter illuminated by Lucas Horenbout, London ; the Armagnac manuscript of the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, Rouen.
The Abbey of Saint-Loup developed a renowned library and scriptorium.
The remains still contain a fine parvise which holds some examples of books from the Abbey library.
Their library was acquired by the Premonstratensians of the Abbey of Tongerloo, who endeavored to carry on the work.
* St. Gall Abbey library
He soon became prior of Anchin Abbey, near Pecquencourt, and passed much of his time in the valuable monastery library, studying ecclesiastical history, especially that of Flanders.
Langham left the residue of his large estate and his library to Westminster Abbey, and has been called its second founder.
Proposed developments include the development of a large new residential quarter at Carcur, a new river crossing at that point, the new town library, the refurbishment of Selskar Abbey and the controversial redevelopment of the former site of Wexford Electronix.
Its history is identified with the Abbey founded in 614 by St. Columbanus, and as a result it became one of the principal centers of religious culture in medieval Italy, home to a famous library and basilica.
The site became the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Martial, a great library ( second only to the library at Cluny ) and scriptorium.
Although early commentators suggested that it could have been compiled in Regensburg, the list seems to have been taken from Codex Reginbertinus II, recorded in the 9th century in the library of the Reichenau Abbey and named after a local librarian.
His library, of which he donated 42 books to Bordesley Abbey during his lifetime, was extensive.
The fifth Duke is remembered as a capable architect and engineer who excavated an underground art gallery and library under his estate at Welbeck Abbey.
The Abbey library was described by John Leland, King Henry VIII's antiquary who visited it, as containing unique copies of ancient histories of England and unique early Christian documents.
Only few writings by William have survived in the Abbey of Fécamp, but it is not always easy to decide, if the collection of Montpellier which belonged obviously to the library of the Abbey St. Benignus of Dijon, had this Abbey as destination.
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* Saint Anselm Abbey
* Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota
In 1098, Saint Robert of Molesme had founded Cîteaux Abbey, near Dijon, with the purpose of restoring the Rule of St Benedict in all its rigour.
*** Saint Chrodogang, Archbishop of Metz, Abbot of the Lorsch Abbey
Tradition asserts that, sometime around 560, he became involved in a quarrel with Saint Finnian of Movilla Abbey over a psalter.
His body was returned and laid to rest in the Abbey at Saint Gilles.
Around 650 Saint Amand founded two abbeys in Ghent: the Saint Peter Abbey ( Blandinium ) and the Saint Bavo Abbey.
The Saint Bavo Abbey was abolished, torn down, and replaced with a fortress for Spanish troops.
In return, Lothair gave Ebbo the Abbey of Saint Vaast.
He was a prominent mystical theologian, and was prior of the famous Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris from 1162 until his death in 1173.
Like many before him, Richard travelled to Paris in search of a good education and became a canon of the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor on account of its reputation for piety and learning.
The Abbey of Saint Gall () is a religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in present-day Switzerland.
Around 613 an Irish monk named Gallus, a disciple and companion of Saint Columbanus, established a hermitage on the site that would become the Abbey.
In the west, the " new city " structured around the Abbey of Saint Martin was freed from the control of the City during the 10th century ( an enclosure was built towards 918 ) and became " Châteauneuf ".
* Notker the Stammerer, Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall
Hot air balloon shaped as the Abbey of Saint Gall
* Saint Anselm Abbey-a Benedictine Abbey of monks in Goffstown, New Hampshire
The shrine of Saint Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey remains where it was after the final translation of his body to a chapel east of the sanctuary on 13 October 1269 by Henry III.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus ( d. 624 ), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey ( Thorn Island ); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site.
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Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.
This work was available only in fragments in medieval times, but the discovery of a complete copy at the Abbey of St. Gall in 1416 led to its emergence as one of the most influential works on rhetoric during the Renaissance.
During the reign of Pepin the Short, in the 8th Century, Othmar founded the Carolingian style Abbey of St. Gall, where arts, letters and sciences flourished.
In the subsequent century, St. Gall came into conflict with the nearby Bishopric of Constance which had recently acquired jurisdiction over the Abbey of Reichenau on Lake Constance.
In 1712 during the Toggenburg war, also called the second war of Villmergen, the Abbey of St. Gall was pillaged by the Swiss.
* The Abbey of St. Gall is founded.
He resolved to enter the priesthood, but was in doubt whether to enter the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gall or to become a secular priest.
An attempt was also made in 1530 to dissolve the famous Abbey of St. Gall, which was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in its own right, but this failed, and St. Gall has survived.
In 1402 / 3 Schwyz signed an alliance with Appenzell, which was seeking independence from the Abbey of St. Gall.
* Abbey of St. Gall
He also, on a journey home from Italy, deciphered in a palimpsest at the Abbey of St. Gall the fragments of Flavius Merobaudes, a Roman poet of the 5th century.
The last straw was the installation of a Catholic reeve at Baden, and Zürich declared war on 8 June, occupied the Thurgau and the territories of the Abbey of St. Gall and marched to Kappel at the border to Zug.
* Abbey of Saint Gall, Switzerland
Bishop Balderich ( 970 – 986 ), a renowned academic of his time, founded the Speyer cathedral school after the example of the Abbey of Saint Gall, which was to become one of the most important school in the empire.
In addition, there was a Tristan who bore witness to a legal document at the Swabian Abbey of Saint Gall in 807AD.
This refers to the Abbey of St. Gall, which exerted a great influence on the area.
In 1377 Appenzell was allowed to join the League with the support of the cities of Konstanz and St. Gallen ( the city of St. Gallen was often at odds with the neighboring Abbey of St. Gall ).
This treaty represented the end of Appenzell's last financial tie to the Abbey of St. Gall, and a movement to closer relationships with the Confederation.
This refers to the Abbey of St. Gall, which exerted a great influence on the area.
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