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Reichenau Abbey
724–1100
attested. Attested; assigning the Ottonian books to a Reichenau workshop is the standard view but has been questioned.
The island monastery on Lake Constance was a Carolingian centre of learning and, around 1000, home of the Ottonian school of illumination that made luxury books for emperors.
Place: Reichenau Island · On the map
People
- Pirmin (founder, 724)
- Walahfrid Strabo (abbot)
- Hermann of Reichenau
Manuscripts made here
Gospels of Otto III (c. 1000)
Kept now: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4453
Pericopes of Henry II (c. 1007-1012)
Kept now: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4452