| Melk Abbey Library | |
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| 48°13′47″N 15°20′02″E / 48.22960141912034°N 15.333880307604844°E / 48.22960141912034; 15.333880307604844 | |
| Location | Melk, Austria |
| Type | Baroque-style library |
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| Website | www.stiftmelk.at |
The Melk Abbey Library (Deutsch: Stiftsbibliothek Melk), also known as the Library of Melk Abbey, is an Austria-based monastic library located in Melk, Austria. The library has many rare medieval manuscripts, as well as a large inventory of Baroque literature.
In July 2019, a researcher discovered fragments of a famous early erotic work - Der Rosendorn or The Rose Thorn - in the Melk Abbey Library, which allows the poem date back to around 1300, two hundred years earlier than previously thought.
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- Claire Lampen (July 26, 2019). "700 Years Before The Vagina Monologues, There Was the Vagina Dialogue". Thecut.com.
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- "Medievalists excited at parchment fragment of 'vagina monologue'". The Guardian. Jul 26, 2019.
- "A Rediscovered Erotic Poem Might Indicate the Middle Ages Were Sexier Than We Thought". Mental Floss. July 31, 2019.