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DeChurched Atlas

Libraries

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Bobbio Abbey

614–1100

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Bobbio Abbey
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The Irish monk Columbanus founded Bobbio in the Apennines in 614. Its library became one of the richest in early medieval Italy; a 10th-century catalogue lists about 700 volumes. Its books are now scattered, mainly in Milan, Rome and Turin.

Place: Bobbio Abbey · On the map

People

  • Columbanus (founder, 614; d. 615)

Manuscripts made here

  • Codex Bobiensis (k), Old Latin Gospels (c. 400, brought to Bobbio)

    Kept now: Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, G.VII.15

  • Bobbio Missal (8th c.)

    Kept now: Paris, BnF, lat. 13246

  • Palimpsests of Cicero, Fronto and others reused at Bobbio

    Kept now: Vatican Library and Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Sources

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