Website: http://www.stiftadmont.at/

Holdings: The Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) lists the 779 manuscripts that were microfilmed for HMML. For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Jacob Wichner, O.S.B., Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Admontensis (1889), is available for use at HMML.

Website: http://www.stift-altenburg.at/

Holdings: The Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) lists the 228 manuscripts that were microfilmed for HMML. For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
P. Gregor Schweighofer, Die Handschriften des Stiftes Altenburg (typescript published in facsimile by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan).

Holdings: HMML microfilmed three manuscripts from the Kapuzinerkloster (Bregenz), which closed in 1995.

• Hs. G (HMML 29, 895): Tractatus iuridicus super Bologna et in causa ducatus Wirtembirgensis, s. xvi (1550), 195 ff.
• Hs. St. 2 (HMML 29,896): Hieronymus. Tractatus varii cum commentario, s. xv.
• Hs. 5782 (Prediger Budel 4) (HMML 29,897): Sermones sacri, praesertim pro festis B. Mariae Virginis nec non de festivitate Dominica. Aliaeque materiae, s. xv, 218 ff.

Website: http://www.landesarchiv.at

Holdings: The Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) lists the 129 manuscripts that were microfilmed for HMML. For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Holdings: The Checklist of manuscripts (vol I, part 2) lists the five codices of this public archive filmed for HMML. For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Website: http://www.mehrerau.at/

Holdings: The monastery library contains some 100 manuscripts. The Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) contains a list of the 18 manuscripts filmed for HMML. For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Website: http://www.st-georgenberg.at

Holdings: More than 200 manuscripts from its collection were filmed for HMML; the first 104 items are archival records.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Peter Jeffery and Donald Yates. Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts (vol. II: St. Georgenberg-Fiecht), available for purchase from HMML.

Fifteen miles north of Altenburg stands the Premonstratensian monastery of Geras, founded about 1150. Most of its manuscript collection was destroyed by fire in 1620 during the Thirty Years War. The six codices filmed there by HMML probably came from the nearby monastery of Pernegg, which was dissolved in 1782.

Website: http://www.kloesterreich.at (among larger list of monasteries)

Holdings: The Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) lists the 6 manuscripts that were microfilmed for HMML.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Donald Yates. Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts (vol. I), available for purchase from HMML.

Website: www.stiftgoettweig.or.at

Holdings: The Checklist of manuscripts lists the 543 manuscripts filmed by HMML.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Vincenz Werl. Manuskripten-Catalog der Stiftsbibliothek zu Gottweig, 3 vols. (1844), copy available at HMML.

Holdings: Three manuscripts of this collection were microfilmed for HMML.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Six manuscripts of this collection were photographed; however, the microfilms were lost in the New York Post Office fire of December 19, 1967. Julian G. Plante, Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), p. 33, lists the microfilm project numbers.
Note: Copies of microfilm from this collection are not available through HMML!

Manuscripts from this Franciscan convent are now held by the Minoritenkonvent in Vienna.

Holdings: A single codex of this collection was filmed.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue:
Hs. 759. Georgius, Sermones in passione Domini, i.e. Quadragesima; Evangelium apocraphum Nicodemi. s. xv. Project number 27,136

Holdings: Three manuscripts of this collection were filmed.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Website: http://www.kath-kirche-graz.org/stadtpfarre/stadtpfarre.htm

Holdings: One manuscript of this collection was microfilmed and is described in J. Plante, Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2):
Cod. sine numero. Sammelhandschrift. s. xvi. Project number 27,430

Begun in the early sixteenth century, this institution was officially founded only in 1868. It contains nearly 2,000 volumes, of which 179 manuscripts and around 15,000 charters and documents were microfilmed for HMML.

Website: http://www.verwaltung.steiermark.at/cms/ziel/8581/DE

Holdings: The Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) contains a list of the manuscripts and charters filmed.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
J. v. Zahn and A. Mell. Kataloge des Steiermärkischen Landesarchives. I: Joanneumsarchiv. I: Handschriften (Graz-Leipzig 1898), which is supplemented by unpublished inventories filmed for HMML.

Founded in 1573 as the Bibliotheca Collegii Societatis Jesu Graecii, this library was refounded in 1775 as the general library of the State University. Of the more than 2,000 codices in the collection, 1,264 were filmed for HMML, along with more than 40 papyrus fragments.

Website: http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/ub/sosa/

Holdings: J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) lists the shelf marks of the filmed codices and fragments.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Anton Kern. Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Graz 1 (Leipzig 1942), 2 (Wien 1956), and 3 (Nachträge und Register zusammengestellt von Maria Mairold), Wien 1967. An excellent catalog with an excellent index.

The monastery of Friars Minor in Graz was founded in the fourteenth century. All of its forty-one codices were filmed by HMML.

Website: http://www.franziskaner.at/Haeuser/graz.html

Holdings: The Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) contains a summary inventory.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

The library is located in the easternmost province of Burgenland, in the partially ruined Schlossberg of Güssing. Twenty-two of the codices of this Franciscan monastery, which stands some fifty miles east of Graz, were photographed and catalogued by HMML.

Website: www.franziskaner.at

Holdings: The manuscripts of Güssing have been described by D. Yates, Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts, vol. 1. For more information, please contact the curator.

Solbad Hall, which was at the center of salt production in the Tyrol, played a leading role in the economic life of the Tyrol.  The library also houses the manuscripts of the Klarissenkloster in Bressanone (Brixen), Italy, which were also filmed by HMML.

Website: http://www.franziskaner.at/

Holdings: 46 of its manuscripts were filmed for HMML, and 25 of manuscripts of the Klarissenkloster in Bressanone. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
The collection was catalogued in a handwritten inventory made in 1951. This inventory and a summary listing of the manuscripts prepared in 1955 by Dr. H. Bachmann were photographed for HMML.

Website: http://www.stift-heiligenkreuz.at/index.php

Holdings: Of its present collection, 391 manuscripts were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, pt. 1) lists the project numbers.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Benedikt Gsell. "Verzeichniss der Handschriften in der Bibliothek des Stifts Heiligenkreuz." In Zenia Bernardina, Pars secunda (Vienna 1891), 115-272.

Founded in 1112, this monastery of Augustinian Canons Regular possesses a collection of 430 manuscripts.

Website: http://www.herzogenburg.at/stift/

Holdings: 145 manuscripts were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1) lists the project numbers.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Hope Mayo. Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. Vol III: Herzogenburg (Collegeville, Mn. 1985), available from HMML.

Website: http://www.serviten.at/

Holdings:
Thirty three codices from this collection were microfilmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), pp. 61-62, briefly describes the manuscripts.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Founded in the mid-thirteenth century, this collection contains thousands of items dating from 1185 to the present.

Website: http://www.tirol.gv.at/themen/kultur/landesarchiv/index.shtml

Holdings: 1,109 codices were filmed for HMML. Most if not all these codices appear to be entirely archival.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalogs:
An undated bibliographical guide to this collection is available in the Hill Library: Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesarchiv. Rep. 40: Codices oder Handschriften Hauptkatalog in der Folge der Nummern, No. 1-4100

Otto Stolz. "Geschichte und Bestände des staatlichen Archives (jetzt Landesregierungs-Archives) zu Innsbruck. Inventare österreichischer staatlicher Archive 6 (Wien: Aholzhausens Nachfolger, 1938).

Website: http://www.tiroler-landesmuseum.net/

Holdings: 83 codices were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), lists the project numbers.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Werner Fechter, "Thalbacher Handschriften im Ferdinandeum Innsbruck," Codices Manuscripti, 2 (1976), 113-117.

Website: http://www.uibk.ac.at/c108/hb/ass.html

Holdings: 695 codices were microfilmed for HMML. A collection of ten codices known as the Ris Bibliothek, Flauring, is in the custody of the Universitätsbibliothek. Since these codices will most likely accrue to the Universitätsbibliothek, they have been, for our purposes, counted as a part of it.

Catalogs:
The first two volumes of the catalog have appeared: Walter Neuhauser, ed. Katalog der Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Innsbruck. I: Cod. 1-100, II: Cod. 101-200 (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987- ).

This Premonstratensian monastery was founded around 1128.

Website: http://www.stift-wilten.at/

Holdings: 26 manuscripts were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) lists the project numbers.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Website: http://www.kath-kirche-kaernten.at/pages/orgeinh.asp?id=1013

Holdings: Of the nearly 250 manuscripts of the ecclesiastical library in the capital of Kärnten (Carinthia), 179 were microfilmed for HMML.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Hermann Menhardt. Handschriftenverzeichnisse österreichischer Bibliotheken. Kärnten, Bd. I: Klagenfurt, Maria Saal, Friesach (Wien, 1927), 1-82.

A single codex of the library of this Franciscan monastery was filmed and catalogued by HMML. The codex is now located at the Kapuzinerkloster in Vienna.

Cod. no. 1. Historienbibel, illuminated.
s. xv. Project number 12,933

Website: http://www.landesarchiv.ktn.gv.at/

Holdings: Of the more than 600 manuscripts in this collection, HMML limited its microfilming to the 222 manuscripts in the "Geschichtsverein." The codices in the other two fonds, the Allgemeine Handschriften Sammlung and the Ständisches Archiv, remain unfilmed.

Catalog:
Hermann Menhart. Handschriftenverzeichnisse österreichischer Bibliotheken. Kärnten, Bd. I: Klagenfurt, Maria Saal, Friesach (Wien, 1927) 184-254.

This collection consists in large part of manuscripts from two former Benedictine monasteries in Kärnten, Millstadt and Ossiach.

Website: www.uni-klu.ac.at/ub/

Holdings: Of its 300 manuscripts, 214 were photographed for HMML.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalog:
Hermann Menhardt. Handschriftenverzeichnisse österreichischer Bibliotheken. Kärnten, Bd. I: Klagenfurt, Maria Saal, Friesach (Wien, 1927), 83-183.

This monastery of Augustinian Canons Regular, some eight miles northwest of Vienna, was founded shortly after 1100 by the Babenberger Margraf Leopold IV, popularly known as St. Leopold, patron saint of Austria. For more than eight centuries it has remained a center of learning and culture, and the excellence of its medieval school and scriptorium is attested to by its large and valuable manuscript collection.

Website: http://www.stift-klosterneuburg.at/

Holdings: HMML microfilmed 1,270 codices. J. Plante, A Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part I), lists the project numbers.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Catalogs:
Alois Haidinger. Katalog der Handschriften des Augustiner Chorherrenstiftes Klosterneuburg (Wien, 1983).

H. Pfeiffer and B. Cernik. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum qui in Biblioteca Canonicorum Reg. S. Aug. asservantur, 2 vols. (Wien, 1922-l931). The continuation of this catalogue by B. Cernik remains in handwritten form.

This Benedictine abbey was founded in 777 by Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria. Except for the years 1939-45, when the monastic community was ejected during the Nazi occupation and the manuscript collection was transferred elsewhere, the abbey has enjoyed an unbroken and flourishing existence. After World II almost all of the codices were recovered.

Website: http://www.stift-kremsmuenster.at/

Holdings: A total of 432 of its manuscripts were filmed for HMML. They are listed in J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, pt. 1), pp. 19-22.

Catalogs:
Hauke Fill, ed. Katalog der Handschriften des Benediktinerstiftes Kremsmünster von den Anfängen bis in die Zeit des Abtes Friedrich von Aich (ca. 800-1325). Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters, Reihe II, Bd. 3 (Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1984).

Hugo Schmid, Catalogus codicum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Monasterii Cremifanensis Ord. S. Bened. asservatorum, vol. I, fasc. 1-3 (Linz, 1877-81), includes the first ten manuscripts of the Codices Cremifanenses. HMML has a xerox copy.

A handwritten catalogue by Beda Lehner (Bibliotheca Cremifanensis, Catalogus manuscriptorum), from a draft by Hugo Schmid, includes the Codices Cremifanenses, the 13 items of the Schatzkasten, and the 17 filmed manuscripts from the Codices Cremifanenses novi. HMML has a xerox copy.

This castle, located 15 miles north of Vienna, dates from the early twelfth century. Destroyed and rebuilt several times during its history, it was restored to its present form in the nineteenth century.

Holdings: The collection of 36 manuscripts was filmed by HMML. However, sixteen of these microfilms were destroyed in a fire in the New York Post Office on December 19, 1967. J. Plante, A Checklist of Manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), p. 99, contains an inventory.

Originally founded as a house for twelve secular canons, in 1056 Lambach was given to Benedictine monks from Münsterschwarzach and became a center of reform that influenced Admont, Melk, Sankt Lambrecht, and other Benedictine houses. It enjoyed close relations with the newly established universities of Vienna and Salzburg. By the end of the Middle Ages the size of its library indicated Lambach's preeminent position. In the twentieth century a large portion of its medieval and Renaissance collections had to be sold.

Website:

Holdings: Of the codices remaining in the collection, 405 were microfilmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1) contains a list of the manuscripts filmed.

Catalog:
P. Felix Resch. Handschriften-Katalog Lambach, vol. I: Parchment. A xerox copy of this volume, part of the two-volume handwritten catalog, is available for use at HMML.

This Cistercian monastery, 50 miles southwest of Vienna, was founded in 1202 by Duke Leopold VI, called the Glorious.

Website: http://www.stift-lilienfeld.at

Holdings: The entire collection of 203 manuscripts was photographed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1), contains an inventory list.

Catalogue:
Conrad Schimek. "Verzeichnis der Handschriften des Stiftes Lilienfeld," Xenia Bernardina, pars secunda, I. 481-561 (Wien, 1891).

Website: http://www.kth-linz.ac.at/bibliothek/index.htm

Holdings: Of its holdings 11 manuscripts were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalogs:
Hans Hollerweger. "Die Bibliothek der Katholisch-Theologischen Hochschule Linz." Biblos 37 (1988), 173-177.

"Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Bibliothek der Phil.-Theol. Hochschule der Diözese Linz." Traditio 32 (1976), 427-474.

Founded in 1774, this library contains more than 500 manuscripts. Formerly it was the Öffentliche Studienbibliothek.

Website: www.landesbibliothek.at

Holdings: 219 manuscripts were filmed for HMML along with 179 fragments. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
Konrad Schiffmann. Die Handschriften der öffentlichen Studienbibliothek in Linz (Linz, 1935). A copy of this unpublished typescript is available for use at HMML.

Holdings: Five codices of this collection were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2) contains a summary inventory.  These manuscripts are now housed at the Stadtarchiv.

Founded in 1896, this collection contains material dating from the twelfth to the twentieth century.

Website: http://www.ooe.gv.at/einrichtung/kultur/index.htm?larchiv.htm

Holdings: J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), pp. 109-115, lists the 489 codices filmed for HMML.  For more information, please consult the online catalogue.

Website: http://www.landesmuseum.at/

Holdings: Nine manuscripts of this collection were filmed. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I , part 2), p. 117 contains a summary inventory.

The church of Maria Saal, once served by a collegiate chapter and destined to become the seat of a bishop, fell behind in population, trade and industry. It lost its collegiate chapter but not the canons' library. As a functioning parish, Maria Saal escaped the monastic dissolution in Carinthia in 1782. Maria Saal, which remains a parish church, has retained its manuscript collection.

Holdings: All 45 of its codices were filmed by HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains a summary list.

Catalog:
Hermann Menhardt. Handschriftenverzeichnisse österreichischer Bibliotheken. Kärnten, Bd. I: Klagenfurt, Maria Saal, Friesach (Wien, 1927), pp. 264-287.

This Benedictine abbey, founded in 976, possesses a large manuscript collection, which has fortunately survived three fires (1297, 1682, 1738). A monastic school flourished at Melk as early as the twelfth century, and during the fifteenth and sixteenth century the abbey was a branch of the University of Vienna.

Website: http://www.stiftmelk.at/

Holdings: HMML filmed 1,105 mss. from the library. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1), contains an inventory list.

Catalogs:
Catalogus Codicum Manu Scriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Mellicensi O.S.B. servantur, T. I-III (Vienna, 1889). A xerox copy of this catalog is available at HMML.

Not far north of Salzburg stands this Benedictine abbey, founded in the eighth century. Although the majority of its manuscripts were carried off to Vienna and Munich in the early nineteenth century, 125 remain.

Website: http://www.abtei-michaelbeuern.at/

Holdings: All of the manuscripts were photographed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol I, part 2), pp. 121-122, contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
P. Werigand Mayr. Catalogus manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Burae ad S. Michaelem, a handwritten inventory completed in 1950 and available at HMML.

Website: http://www.kloster-neustift.it/

This Augustinian monastery, founded in 1084, lost its manuscript collection in a devasting fire, managing to save only the eight volumes of works by its Abbot Gerhoh (d. 1169).

Website: http://www.stift-reichersberg.at/

Holdings: The eight volumes by its Abbot Gerhoh, and four other codices acquired after the fire, for a total of 12, were filmed for HMML.

Catalog:
Julian G. Plante, "Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Stift Reichersberg". Bibliographies, Colloques, Travaux Preparatoires (Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1973), available at HMML.

Founded in 1129 by Markgraf Leopold I of Steiermark, this Cistercian monastery is located in extreme eastern Austria. From the thirteenth century a Latin school flourished there. When the monastery was sacked by the Turks in 1480 many of its manuscripts perished. Still, Rein remains the oldest surviving Cistercian monastery in the world.

Website: http://www.stift-rein.at/

Holdings: Of its present collection of 206 codices, 158 were photographed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), pp. 125-126, contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
P. Anton Weis, "Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek zu Rein," Xenia Bernardina II (Wien, 1891), I. 1-114, available at HMML.

Website: http://www.kirchen.net/archiv/

Holdings: A single manuscript from this collection was filmed by HMML and described by Donald Yates, Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Austrian Libraries, vol. I, p. 87.

Codex 14. Pontificale.
s. xiv. Project number 11,452

Website: http://www.kirchen.net/priesterseminar/

Holdings: Twenty-one codices of this collection were filmed by HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
Donald Yates. Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Austrian Libraries, vol. I, pp. 89-115. Available for purchase from HMML.

Website: www.smca.at

Holdings: 20 manuscripts have been filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), p. 131, contains an inventory list.

Catalogs:
Donald Yates. Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Austrian Libraries, vol. I, pp. 117-148. Available from HMML.

"Katalog über die in der Bibliothek des städtischen Museums Carolino-Augusteum vorhandenen Salisburgensia", Beilage zum Jahresbericht (Salzburg, 1870).

This Benedictine monastery for nuns has enjoyed an unbroken existence since its foundation about the year 700. It appeased the civil authorities intent on its dissolution in the early nineteenth century by presenting them with manuscripts from its manuscript collection.

Website: http://www.salzburginfo.or.at/rundgang/nonnberg_e.htm

Holdings: Two hundred thirty five manuscripts remain at Nonnberg; 195 of these have been filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Founded by St. Rupert in 690, this abbey is the oldest monastery in western Europe to have carried on its life to the present day. Although many codices were lost to authorities in Paris, Vienna, and Munich during the turbulent years of the early nineteenth century, thirteen hundred manuscripts written in the abbey scriptorium--some dating from the eighth and ninth centuries--remain in the abbey library.

Website: Erzabtei St. Peter in Salzburg (in German).

Holdings: 925 manuscripts were microfilmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
The handwritten shelflist, Beschreibung der Handschriften des Stiftes St. Peter, was xeroxed for HMML.

The University of Salzburg Library, which was established in 1623, has collected a large number of manuscripts. Approximately half of the volumes were acquired from dissolved monastic libraries in Austria and Italy; the remainder includes lectures by university professors, state ordinances, and local historical documents. In the nineteenth century some manuscripts were transferred to Munich and Vienna. Until 1927 the library was known as the Studienbibliothek.

Website: http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/webseite/sosa.htm

Holdings: 501 manuscripts were filmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalogs:
Copies of the handwritten catalogs (Auctoren-Katalog, Standorts-Katalog, Konkordanz der Alten und Neuen Signaturen, and Fach-Katalog) are available at HMML.

Founded in 1071, this monastery of Augustinian Canons Regular is the oldest surviving Augustinian house in German-speaking countries.

Website: http://www.stift-st-florian.at/

Holdings: Of the 732 manuscripts now found in the monastery, 544 were filmed by HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
A. Czerny. Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Florian (Linz, 1871).

This Benedictine abbey, located on the southern tip of Austria, was founded in 1091 from the reformed abbey of Hirsau. Although of important religious and cultural influence, it was dissolved in 1782 and its manuscripts were scattered. In 1807, however, the community of St. Blasien in Schwarzwald, one of the greatest of German abbeys, in fear of Napoleonic dissolution, requested permission to settle in Austria. First moving to the vacant Augustinian monastery of Spital am Pyhrn, they moved in 1809 to the abandoned buildings of Sankt Paul, bringing with them not only the manuscripts of St. Blasien but those of Spital am Pyrhn as well. Hence, Sankt Paul im Lavanttal possesses a much greater collection of manuscripts than the one lost in 1782.

Website: http://www.stift-stpaul.at/start.html

Holdings: Of its more than 2,000 codices, 1,043 were filmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalogs:
A handwritten catalogue by P. B. Schroll, O.S.B., Catalog codicum manuscriptorum ex monasteriis S. Blasii in Nigra Silva in (in Germania) et Hospitalis ad Pyhrum montem in Austria nunc in monast. S. Pauli in Carinthianites lists the two collections. In 1950 a typewritten Verzeichnis der Handschriften von St. Paul was made which indicates the present state of the collection. The first of these is available for use at HMML, but the second is not.

Website: http://www.kirche.at/stpoelten/dasp/

Holdings: HMML microfilmed a total of 116 manuscripts. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1), contains an inventory list.

This Premonstratensian monastery was founded in 1218.

Website:

Holdings: Of its 269 manuscripts, 246 were photographed by HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
G. Vielhaber and G. Indra, Catalogus codicum Plagensium Manuscriptorum (Linz, 1918).

This Cistercian monastery, founded in 1355, contains a collection of 100 manuscripts.

Website:

Holdings: Thirty three of the manuscripts were microfilmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalogs:
Donald Yates. Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. Austrian Libraries, vol. I, pp. 149-206. Available for purchase from HMML.

Benedict Hofinger. "Verzeichnis der Handschriften der Bibliothek des Stiftes Schlierbach," Xenia Bernardina II (Wien 1891).

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Schwaz, with its important silver and copper mines, was the second most densely populated place in the Tyrol.

Website: http://www.franziskaner.at/

Holdings: Eleven of its manuscripts were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
Donald Yates. Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Austrian Libraries, vol. I, pp. 207-216. Available for purchase from HMML.

Website: http://www.stift-seitenstetten.at/

Holdings: A total of 282 of its manuscripts were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
A handwritten catalog, Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Seitenstettensis tomus II, is available at HMML.

Website: http://www.stiftstams.at/

Holdings: This Cistercian abbey, founded in 1273, has a collection of 117 manuscripts which were filmed for HMML. J. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
"Verzeichnis der Handschriften der Bibliothek der Stiftes Stams," in Xenia Bernardina II (Wien 1891), pp. 463-475.

Website: http://www.villach.at/tmh/sub/museum/redaktion-1682.asp

Holdings: Seven codices from the manuscript collection of this small museum were filmed for HMML. They were photographed at the same time as the codices from the Kärntner Landesarchiv in Klagenfurt, which is near Villach and exercises some control over the museum's manuscript holdings. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Founded in 1163 by Markgraf Ottokar III, this monastery of Augustinian Canons Regular is located in Steiermark, fifty miles north east of Graz. A noted scriptorium flourished at Vorau during the Middle Ages.

Website: http://www.stift-vorau.at/stift/bibliothek.asp

Holdings: 364 manuscripts were filmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
Pius Fank. Catalogus Voraviensis, seu Codices Manuscripti Bibliotecae canoniae in Vorau (Graz, 1936). Available for use at HMML.

This monastery was established in 1226, ten years after the order itself was founded. The collection is largely devoted to Dominican authors.

Website: www.dominikaner.at

Holdings: 251 of its manuscripts were filmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
Felix Czeike, Verzeichnis der Handschriften des Dominikanerkonventes in Wien bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts (1952 typescript), available for use at HMML.

Holdings: Three hundred and one manuscripts of this imperial collection were filmed for HMML for monastic, historical and theological importance. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
Constantin Edlen von Böhm, Die Handschriften des kaiserlichen und königlichen Haus-, Hof-, und Staatsarchivs, 2 vols. (Wien 1873-74).

The Mechitarist Order of Armenian Benedictines was established in 1701 by Mechitar of Sebaste. At their monastery in Vienna, founded in 1810, the Mechitarists have gathered a library which includes more than 1,300 manuscripts dating from the ninth to the nineteenth century.

Holdings: 1,181 manuscripts were filmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
Katalog der Armenischen Handschriften in der Mechitaristen Bibliothek in Wien, vol. I by Jacobus Dashian (Wien, l895); vol 2 by Hamazasp Oskian (Wien, 1963).

Holdings: 232 manuscripts were filmed for HMML, including a collection of 160 manuscripts of modern church music. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalogs:
P. Landulf Honickel, Archivinventar des Minoritenkonvents Wien. 2. Teil: Handschriften (unpublished), available for use at HMML.
Wilhelm Riedel, Das Musikarchiv im Minoritenkonvent zu Wien (Kassel, 1963).

The history of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek can be traced back to the literary holdings of Emperor Maximilian I (1493-1519), some of whose volumes passed into the Hofbibliothek in the sixteenth century. From uncertain beginnings, the library continued to grow, gathering rarities and reputation. Known until 1918 as the Kaiserliche und köonigliche Hofbibliothek, and since then as the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, its collection of some 30,000 manuscripts is one of the most important libraries of the world.

Website: http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/hschrift/index.htm

Holdings: Approximately 14,000 codices in various languages were filmed for HMML. In addition, 100,000 papyri fragments from the Papyrussammlung were also filmed. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalogs:
Otto Mazal and Fritz Unterkircher, Katalog der abendländischen Handschriften der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek, series nova (Neuerwerbungen), 4 vols. (Wien, 1963-71);

Fritz Unterkircher, Die datierten Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek bis zum Jahre 1400 (Wien, 1969);

Fritz Unterkircher, Abendländische Buchmalereien: Miniaturen aus Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Graz, 1927).

Herbert Hunger, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 2 vols. (Wien, 1961-69);

Herbert Hunger, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek: Supplementum graecum, Biblio-Schriften, Bd. 15 (Wien, 1957);

Daniel Nessel, Catalogus sive recensio specialis omnium manuscriptorum graecorum, nec non linguarum orientalium, Augustissimae bibliothecae Caesareae Vindobonensis, 6 vols. (Wien, 1690).

Gustav Flügel, Die arabischen, persischen and türkischen Handschriften der kaiserlich-königlichen Hofbibliothek in Wien, 3 vols. (Wien, 1865-67);

Helen Loebenstein, Katalog der arabischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek: Neuerwerbungen, 1868-1968, Vol. 1, (Wien, 1970).

Arthur Z. Schwarz, Die hebräischen Handschriften der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Wien, 1925).

H. Menhardt, Verzeichnis der altdeutschen literarischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Berlin, 1960-61).

All these catalogs are available for use at HMML.

The Schottenstift, in the heart of Vienna, was founded in 1155 by Irish and Scottish monks to assist Irish pilgrims to and from the Holy Land. The Irish withdrew in 1418, taking most of their characteristic manuscripts with them. Benedictines from Melk took over the monastery.

Website: http://www.schottenstift.at/archiv.htm

Holdings: The present collection of 750 codices, 466 of which were filmed for HMML, is largely made up of fourteenth and fifteenth century texts. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
A. Hübl, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Monasterii B.V.M. ad Scotos Vindobonae servantur (Vienna and Leipzig, 1899).

Website:

Holdings: Eighteen manuscripts were filmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

In the once imperial city of Wiener-Neustadt, where the Hapsburgs established a residence 40 miles south of Vienna, Kaiser Friederich III established this Cistercian monastery in 1144. In 1880 the abbey of Neukloster was united with Heiligenkreuz; however, the two libraries remain distinct.

Website: http://www.neukloster.at/

Holdings: Of its collection of 81 codices, the 36 manuscripts filmed for HMML constitute a brilliantly illuminated collection, presumably the gifts of its imperial founder. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 2), contains an inventory list.

Founded in 1146, this Cisterican abbey has a collection of 160 manuscripts.

Website: http://www.stiftwilhering.at/

Holdings: 154 manuscripts microfilmed for HMML. Julian G. Plante, A Checklist of manuscripts (vol. I, part 1), contains an inventory list.

Catalog:
Otto Grillnberger, "Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek in Wilhering", Xenia Bernardina II (Wien, 1891), pp. 1-114.

Located 80 miles northwest of Vienna, this Cistercian monastery was founded in 1138 by Count Hadmir I.

Website: http://www.stift-zwettl.co.at/

Holdings: 441 of its manuscripts were filmed for HMML.

Catalog:
Charlotte Ziegler. Zisterzienserstift Zwettl: Katalog der Handschriften des Mittelalters, 4 Bde. Scriptorium Ordinis Cisterciensium Monasterii BMV in Zwettl (Wien und Zwettl, 1992-98).

Holdings: HMML obtained a microfilm of a single codex of this parish house, a missal of the fifteenth century.
Note: This manuscript cannot be reproduced through HMML: please consult the owning library.

Catalogs:
Donald Yates. Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts, vol. 1.

J. Köck. Handschriftliche Missalien in Steiermark. Graz-Wien 1916.

Holdings: HMML purchased microfilms of 43 manuscripts from this collection. They are available for use at HMML only.
Note: Copies of microfilm from this collection are not available through HMML. Please consult the owning library.