Liber viventium Fabariensis

Written in one of the oldest Cistercian monasteries in the world: one of the richest and most important sources on the history of the Kuenringer dynasty and Austria, named after its unusual binding made from the skin of a "sow-bear"

The remarkable result of the extraordinary cooperation of a canoness and a canon: Augustinian rules, prayers, medicine and a register of the dead, united in a richly illuminated codex for the Schwarzenthann monastery

Created over 1000 years ago in Abbey of Einsiedeln and kept there ever since: the oldest surviving document of Western Christian music, magnificently decorated with shining golden initials and incipits

A small codex with the Epistles of Paul dating back to as early as the 9th century: appended with an Old Irish poem by a pilgrim disappointed in the pilgrimage to Rome

In the footsteps of the original Rule of St. Benedict from 516: the most significant manuscript in terms of textual history of what is probably the most influential Christian monastic rule, and fascinating letters from St. Benedict of Nursia

A psalterium aureum from the Carolingian period for the famous monastery of St. Gall: probably created in the circle of King Louis the German, written almost entirely in gold and decorated with purple scenes from the life of King David