The monastery library holds 110 manuscripts and approximately 5,000 printed books.
There, she occupied herself by making Hatto's clothes and helping to bind many of the books in the monastery library.
Even in our monastery library, we had nothing so fine as this.
The monastery library (built 1680-1689 by Carlone) contains about 160,000 volumes.
Also, in Eastern Christianity monastery libraries kept important manuscripts.
Between August 2000 and May 2002 more than 1,000 ancient books went missing from the monastery library.
The abbey already had its own scriptorium in the 12th century, and formed one of the most important monastery libraries in Europe.
The monastery library was transferred to the Lyceum at Dillingen.
Copying books and storing them in monastery libraries soon became sacred duties.
Smiling, he promised himself that if he could ever find the time, he would go back to the monastery library for serious study.
