A school was founded in the 12th century, and the monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection.
The library is the largest monastic library in Germany, with over 400,000 books.
It has been estimated that there were about 200 books in the monastic library.
Although the collection of the monastic library remains an important collection, larger ones have been created since then.
The same period saw the flowering of monastic libraries in Britain.
Attala also restored the binding of the books in the monastic library.
From 1286 to the late 15th century it was available mainly in manuscripts held by monastic libraries.
It appears in an inventory of the monastic library done in 1461.
Instead, I am working in the dust of a monastic library, reading a document from 1603.
"The other two monastic libraries you visited," he began again quietly.