However, Benedictine monks were disallowed worldly possessions, thus necessitating the preservation and collection of sacred texts in monastic libraries for communal use.
22.
Under his abbacy Llanbadarn Fawr's monastic library grew in size and importance; reputedly larger than those of Canterbury Cathedral and York Minster.
23.
After the nationalisation of the monastic library the Khitrovo Gospel was incorporated in the holdings of the Russian State Library in Moscow.
24.
The monastic library houses 388 manuscripts in Church Slavonic and 126 in Greek, as well as about 10, 000 printed books altogether.
25.
Numerous medieval monastic libraries in Macedonia, part of whose funds we have today, continued the library tradition on the territory of Macedonia.
26.
These libraries were sponsored by popes, royals, and nobility who sent agents throughout Western Europe to locate manuscripts in deteriorating monastic libraries.
27.
In Eastern Christendom, monastic libraries developed on a similar pattern . Catalogs were simply inventories of items held by the community.
28.
The F manuscript has remained at Ely since its creation, and is the only manuscript at Ely still remaining from the medieval monastic library.
29.
He was responsible for rediscovering and recovering a great number of classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries.
30.
Demand for manuscripts grew to an extent that the Monastic libraries were unable to meet with the demand, and began employing secular scribes and illuminators.
