Cornel Dora, Philipp Lenz, Franziska Schnoor, Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, London 2021, 80 pages, lavishly illustrated, ISBN 978-1-78551-378-7

The members of the management team of the Abbey Library present a personal choice of the most important and captivating items in the library’s collection.

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The Abbey of St Gallen – A Guide to the Cultural History

Josef Grünenfelder, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2020, 2nd and revised and expanded edition, 248 pages, lavishly illustrated, ISBN 978-3-89870-730-5

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Life in the Early Middle Ages in 36 Chapters

Companion volume to the exhibition «The Miracle of Transmission – The Plan of St Gall and Europe in the early Middle Ages» on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the monastary of St Gall
Edited by Peter Erhart, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2021, 187 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978-3-95976-351-6

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The Abbey Library of Saint Gall – The history, the Baroque hall and the collections of the Abbey Library

Ernst Tremp, Johannes Huber, Karl Schmuki, Verlag am Klosterhof, St.Gallen 2020, 2nd revised and updated edition, 128 pages, lavishly illustrated, ISBN 978-3-905906-39-4

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The Abbey Plan of St Gall – Facsimile, Commentary, Inscriptions with translations

Edited by Abbey Library of St Gall,
commentary by Ernst Tremp, Verlag am Klosterhof, St.Gallen 2020, facsimile folded, commentary 48 pages, ISBN 978-3-905906-35-6

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Mystery at the Monastery of St Gall

Les Guides à Pattes, Middle Ages Volume 2

Licile Tissot, illustrated by Bernard Reymond
Infolio éditions, Gollion 2021, 31 pages, ISBN 978-2-88968-012-2
recommandation 8+ years old

Have your heard about the abbey of St Gall? Adalbert, a stubborn and determined bear, has decided to get inside by all means. He wants to uncover a book to prove to his cousin that a bear played a decisive role in the birth of this abbey. He will guide you inside its walls and you will explore the way of life of the monks who lived here.

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