Monastery Collection (page 27)

Fragment of Sintrams Evangelium Longum
A fragment of Sintrams Evangelium Longum, a gospel book. It is one of the great treasures of the Monastery and Library of St Gall in Switzerland

England / Mount Grace
MOUNT GRACE formerly a Carthusian monastery

Cloister, Dubrovnik
One monk reads while another draws water from the well in the cloisters of the monastery of San Francesco at Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) Croatia

C12 Religious Costume
Ecclesiastical habits, a pilgrim at the door of a monastery

Russia / Archangel / Solovet
Archangel: Solovetzki monastery

Mussorgsky / Boris / Liebig1
Act One : outside the monastery of Novedevichy, the people implore Boris to accept the crown : he accepts

Mussorgsky / Boris / Set
Set design for the Prologue : the courtyard of the Nevodevichy monastery

Food for Monks
Food is brought to the monastery door - a deer, a swan, a basket of fish and lots of game

Troitsa Monastery
Priests on the porch steps of Troitsa monastery in Russia

Chilperic II
CHILPERIC II king of the Franks, a monk taken from a monastery and set up as a puppet king by Charles Martel, mayor of the palace

Rome / Panoramic View
A panoramic view of Rome, dating from between 1350 and 1450, and originating from the monastery at Mantua

Migrating Swallows
Swallows leaving Europe for warmer winter resorts are caught by fierce winter while crossing the Alps and take refuge in the monastery of Saint Bernard

Cistercian Monastery
Restoration of a Cistercian monastery in medieval Germany

Saint John of Meda
John Oldratus, of Meda a town in Lombardy, was a member of the penitential order of Humiliati, who withdrew from the world and had a monastery near Milan

Monk Paints Statuette
A monk from the Benedictine monastery of Lerins. He achieved fame as an artist. The statue of St Theresa he is working on in the photo was bought by the Queen of Italy

Bayham Abbey 6 of 6
Bayham Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery on the Kent and Sussex borders, was founded by Robert Thornham at the turn of the 12th century

Bayham Abbey 5 of 6
Bayham Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery on the Kent and Sussex borders, was founded by Robert Thornham at the turn of the 12th century

Bayham Abbey 4 of 6
Bayham Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery on the Kent and Sussex borders, was founded by Robert Thornham at the turn of the 12th century

Bayham Abbey 3 of 6
Bayham Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery on the Kent and Sussex borders, was founded by Robert Thornham at the turn of the 12th century

Bayham Abbey 1 of 6
Bayham Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery on the Kent and Sussex borders, was founded by Robert Thornham at the turn of the 12th century

Luther Sent to Meissen
MARTIN LUTHER is sent by Staupitz to the Augustinian monastery at Meissen, in Thuringen

Mont St. Michel from Air
An aerial view of Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France, showing the dramatic monastery, with its steeple, peeping through the clouds

Italian Postman
Am Italian postman delivers letters to a monastery

St Bernard Prior & Dogs
The Prior of the St Bernard monastery with two Saint- Bernard pups who will be trained as rescue dogs on this dangerous Alpine pass

Lindisfarne / Grose / Plate3
Lindisfarne or Holy Island Monastery

BESSARION - Latin patriarch of Constantinople. Byzantine theologian and Humanist. Was originally called Basil but took Bessarion on entering monastery

Monk Presents Prayer Bk
ELFNOTH Abbot. Presenting a book of prayer to the Monastery of St. Augustin

Puritans in Monastery
PURITANS - Puritan soldiers plunder a monastery during the English Civil War

Massacre of Dominicans at Sandomir, Poland
At Sandomir (now Sandomierz), a city on the River Vistula in south east Poland, 49 Dominicans are massacred by Tartars (or Tatars) invading from the east

Missionaries / Asia
The monastery of Echmiatzin (Utch Kilisseh) in Turkish Armenia, allegedly founded by saint Bartholomew in the 1st century

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