Atla Digital Library Welcomes Two New Libraries

We are pleased to welcome two new contributors to the Atla Digital Library! We have added collections from Mount Angel Abbey Library and Thomas More University Benedictine Library.

Explore highlights from these collections below.

Illuminated Manuscripts

The Mount Angel Abbey Library Illuminated Manuscript Collection contains full-codices and manuscript fragments dating from approximately the mid-thirteenth century. A majority of the manuscripts are medieval devotional literature (Latin Books of Hours).

You can see the full Illuminated Manuscripts Collection in the Atla Digital Library.

Bishop Howard-Gregor Mendel Collection

The Thomas More University Bishop Howard – Gregor Mendel Collection contains documents located in the Diocese of Covington Archives, as well as those that were preserved in Ottawa, Ontario, by Doctor Edward O. Dodson. The Collection contains forty-five copies of translations made from the actual nineteenth-century documents, referred to hereafter as the primary documents. These cover the span of Mendel’s entire life, from a copy of his 1822 baptismal certificate to notices of his death in 1884. There are copies of his academic records, letters of recommendation attesting to his moral character, spiritual development, and teaching skills, notices of his ordination to the priesthood and of his election as abbot, invitations to participate in biological/botanical societies and events, plus some of his correspondence as Abbot of St. Thomas Abbey, including controversies with the Austrian Government.

You can see the full Bishop Howard-Gregor Mendel Collection in the Atla Digital Library.

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