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Founder of the Benedictines Illuminated parchment scroll from 15th-century France, partially unrolled to reveal handwritten text, colored lines, and an illustration of a castle at the top. Divine office at a Benedictine abbey A Benedictine monk restoring incunabula at the monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Tuscany, Italy.
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Founder of the Benedictines
St. Benedict of Nursia, stone carving at the abbey in Münsterschwarzach, Germany.
Immanuel Giel
“The Lines of French Kings”
Les Lignées des roys de France (“The Lines of French Kings”), c. 1450; the parchment...
The Newberry Library, Purchased with the assistance of T. Kimball Brooker, 1993 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Divine office at a Benedictine abbey
Benedictine monks singing vespers, a canonical hour of the divine office, on Holy...
John Stephen Dwyer
A Benedictine monk restoring incunabula at the monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore,...
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