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Extract from the Benediktbeuern Travel Guides:
BENEDKITBEUERN
, 8km north of Kochel on the rail line to Munich, is a small health resort with its back to the Benediktenwand. Its
Kloster
, which dates back to 789, is chiefly famous for the manuscript known as
Carmina Burana
, which was compiled and illuminated there in the late thirteenth century, remaining in the monastery library until the Napoleonic secularization, when it was carted off to Munich. Although this anthology of eleventh- to thirteenth-century (mostly Latin) lyrics by itinerant scholars and monks contains some religious pieces, its primary concerns are decidedly earthly, with moral and sa...
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