One bejeweled ninth-century Quedlinburg manuscript was recovered by a private West German foundation in April for a finder's fee of $3 million.
The text is preserved in a ninth-century manuscript, containing 20 quires, in which are described 25 villages.
The texts exist only in a single ninth-century manuscript in Berlin.
The collection of 100,000 books and manuscripts includes a ninth-century manuscript and a vast store of 15th-century sermons and devotional literature.
In the last years of his life, he worked cataloging nearly 7,000 ninth-century medieval Latin manuscripts, published by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Thus, in a ninth-century Irish manuscript of Cassiodorus on the psalms, we find: 'Pleasant is the glint of the sun today on these margins.
The most valuable item in the collection is the Samuhel Gospels, a sumptuously illustrated and illuminated ninth-century manuscript lettered with gold ink.
Although it must have been more widely disseminated in Ermold's time, the only surviving copy is the single-book fragment preserved in a late ninth-century manuscript.
Adversus nationes survived in a single ninth-century manuscript in Paris (and a bad copy of it in Brussels).
Charlemagne and his wife, from a ninth-century manuscript.