Melk Abbey Library
Melk, Austria. Founded 1089.
- Type: Monastic
- City: Melk
- Country: Austria
- Founded: 1089
Overview
The Benedictine abbey of Melk, perched above the Danube since 1089, was rebuilt in baroque style from 1702. Its library of about 100,000 volumes and 1,800 manuscripts occupies gilded halls whose ceiling frescoes celebrate learning. The narrator of Umberto Ecos medieval mystery The Name of the Rose, Adso of Melk, is a monk of this house.
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