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1nandadevi
Edited: Aug 9, 2013, 1:41 pm

This is a Topic area for discussions relating to the Section titled The Personal Library in History in the member-created LibraryThing Wiki document The Personal Library Guide.

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2Africansky1
Aug 9, 2013, 3:40 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Melk_-_Abbey_-_Library.jpg-
here is a picture of the Melk Monastery Library - which is an excellent example of a monastic library - a fair amount of information on Wikipedia - I loved visiting this library.