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With around 70,000 volumes, the
late Baroque library of the Admont
Benedictine Foundation is a true
treasury of knowledge and is considered
the largest monastic library in the world.
The foundation’s priceless works
comprise more than 1,400 handwritten
texts that date back to the 8th century.
These include 530 incunabula, so called
early printed works produced between
the middle and the end of the 15th
century. Since its founding in 1074 the
Benedictine foundation has been
collecting and storing valuable cultural
objects in the Austrian province of Styria.
The impressive library has existed in its
current form since 1776.
A masterpiece of knowledge