When monastic libraries and scriptoria arose in the early 6th century ( the first European monastic writing dates from 517 ), they defined European literary culture and selectively preserved the literary history of the West.
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The rise of Cambridge, Robert de Sorbon to the University of Paris, etc . The emerging university libraries, small though they may have been at first, rapidly assumed a different function than the monastic libraries.
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The library included as much of early antiquities and early Christian culture as Petrarch had been able to select over ten years of assiduous studying, research in the monastic libraries, and in his journeys of discovery.
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After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, many priceless and ancient manuscripts that had belonged to the monastic libraries began to be disseminated among various owners, many of whom were unaware of the cultural value of the manuscripts.
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The monastic library was famous, and drew eminent scholars to Kremsm�nster, where several important historical works were written, including histories of the bishops of Passau and of the dukes of Bavaria, and the chronicles of the abbey itself.
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Its patron, Saint Clement of Ohrid ( 840 916 ) established the first monastic library in Ohrid, in the Monastery of St . Panteleimon, and he is considered to be the founder of the librarianship in these parts.
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The collection includes some non-literary material, such as a collection of letters from the abbots of the monastery of Saint Pachomius, raising the possibility that the unifying circumstance in the collection is that all were part of a monastic library.
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He was educated at Freiburg im Breisgau, at Klingenau in Switzerland and at the Augustine; from 1759 to 1762 he travelled in Germany, Italy and France, mainly with a view to examining the collections of documents in the various monastic libraries.
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Set in the Wachau and depicting the politics of the times, the epic German poem " Nibelungenlied " was written around 1200 AD . Fragments of this epic was discovered in the monastic library of Melk, which are also displayed there.
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He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English ( on the subject of King John ), and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed.
