Speaker
Edith Specht
(Chorherrenstift Klosterneuburg )
Description
The monastery was founded in 1114 on the site of a Roman camp by Margrave Leopold III of Babenberg and his wife, the Salic Princess Agnes of Waiblingen at their residence in Klosterneuburg.
Right from the very beginning the monastery was a place of scholarship and learning, as is well documented by its sizeable library, and interest taken by the canons in coins and medals. The regularly updated inventories go back to the 1750s, and are a work still in progress. This paper looks into the evolution of the collection and in the diverse systems of cataloging it.
Primary author
Edith Specht
(Chorherrenstift Klosterneuburg )
