cathedral library

Yesterday we vistited a smaller cathedral on the other side of the Altstadt market square.  They have a small library for the clergy and seminary students, and a pretty large special collection of old illuminated manuscripts and other texts.  Most of them were from the late 1400’s and at least the ones our guide brought out to show us were in near-perfect condition.  One book was an explantion of music theory, and one was a book of case studies for law students. He was reading us one of the case studies (translated into modern german, but he spoke very fast so I only caught parts of it) about a woman who had a child out of wedlock and whether or not they should kill the baby. They killed babies but they also had law schools! Europe was wild.

The rest of the library pictures are in the Trier folder on my Flickr page.

My new mission for the weekend is to find the microbrewery (probably an abbey) in this city.  My roommates and I went out to a convienence store last night to pick up a little beer and food, and they sold an amazing live unfiltered microbrew in little corked bottles.  The bottle only says ‘made in Trier’ and has the ingredients (water, hops, barley, yeast… natürlich!) listed on the back.  And of course, was cheaper than the cheapest beer in America.  And tastier than the best.