Pen library

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An Abbey Library is a pen , so a religious community (mostly clerics world, so canons ) associated library .

Herzogenburg Abbey in Lower Austria

In Austria in particular , monastery libraries , especially those belonging to the old orders ( Benedictines , Cistercians ), are also known as monastery libraries . Even the most famous abbey library in German-speaking countries, the Abbey Library of St. Gallen , is not the library of a canon monastery , but the library of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gallen .

It is advisable to reserve the term monastery library in academic use for the libraries of the canons ( collegiate or regulated canons) , regardless of the library's name .

In Austria, the monastery library of the regulated monastery of Klosterneuburg is the largest academic private library in Austria with approx. 240,000 volumes, over 800 incunabula and over 1200 manuscripts . The Admont Abbey Library, completed in 1776, has been referred to as the 8th wonder of the world in the past. At 70 m in length, 14 m in width and around 13 m in height, it is the world's largest monastic book room.

In Germany, for example, the Xanten Abbey Library of the former Canons' Monastery of St. Viktor could be mentioned (also with valuable old holdings ), but it only acquired its present size after the secularization .

The Beromünster Abbey Library is an important library of a still existing Swiss Canons' Monastery .

The Aschaffenburg Abbey Library managed by the Aschaffenburg Court Library is not actually a monastery library.

Selection of pen libraries (alphabetical)

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