Abtei Heiligenkreuz. Bibliothek: HMML Repository
Abtei Heiligenkreuz. Bibliothek
This Cistercian monastery, twenty-five miles south of Vienna, was founded in 1133. Situated near the eastern border of Austria, Heiligenkreuz was the victim of several Turkish assaults, notably in 1529, 1532, and 1683. When on one occasion the entire community was forced to flee, the monks transported their entire manuscript collection down the Danube to Passau, in the course of which journey many codices suffered still-visible water damage. HMML filmed nearly 400 monastic manuscripts dated from the 10th to 17th c. here.
- Collection
- Western European
- Country
- Austria
- City
- Heiligenkreuz
- Repository
- Abtei Heiligenkreuz. Bibliothek
- Project Codes
- Main Series
- Project Numbers
- 4546-4972; 14751
- Type
- Microform
- Objects Preserved
- 392
- Active Catalog Records
- 392
- Microfilm Reels
- 392
- Date Preserved
- 1966
- HMML Reading Room (sample record)
- https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/4766
- HMML Authority File
- https://haf.vhmml.org/organization/319608208858
- Languages
- Latin, German, Arabic, Greek, Portuguese
- Reproduction Notes
- Some pages or decoration filmed also in color
- Bibliography
- Benedict Gsell, Verzeichniss der Handschriften in der Bibliothek des Stiftes Heiligenkreuz (1891).
- Preservation Status
- Complete
- Cataloging Status
- Complete
- Collections News
- 392 manuscripts added