Monuments to visit Saint-Mihiel

Seven years of construction will have been necessary to complete, in 1775, the library of the abbey of Saint-Mihiel. One counts there nearly 8,800 rare works among which 77 old manuscripts (oldest dating from the 9th century) like 86 incunables, of the works published between the invention of printing works (1450) and 1500. All these invaluable works constituting the collections of the funds Benedictines are preserved in their original building. Their setting is quite as exceptional: an anteroom richly decorated as well as part of the elegant spacious dining room. Among the remarkable books: The Gradual one, manuscript of 1463 decorated anthropomorphic letters and illuminations; the manuscript of Dom Loupvent, delivers decorated with paintings which preserved its binding of time or the manuscript of Alcuin, collection of the 10th century writes in small letters on parchment. The library bénédictine is located upstairs and the ground floor was transformed into prison at the 19th century before the musée départemental of Sacred art of the Meuse is created in 1998. Twenty minutes an introductory video will be presented to you before your visit where you will be able to admire unsuspected treasures.