Documentary heritage of the former Abbey of Saint Gall in the Abbey Archives and the Abbey Library of Saint Gall
The Abbey Archives and the Abbey Library of Saint Gall have an almost unbroken history of 1300 years, beginning with the foundation of the Abbey of Saint Gall in the year 719 and continuing to the present, even though the abbey was dissolved in 1805. They hold charters, manuscripts, volumes of records, incunabula and printed works predating 1805 documenting human culture down through the ages.
