With more than 17,000 items, the holdings of Latin manuscripts (codices latini monacenses - Clm) are the largest and, apart from the German manuscripts, also the most important collection. The “Ordnung der Handschriften” and the system of shelf marks connected with it date back to the work of the librarian Johann Andreas Schmeller.

To mention only a few outstanding items belonging to the collection, there are: the "Brevarium Alarici" (Clm 22501)  dating from the 6th century, a purple book of gospels from the first quarter of the 9th century (Clm 23631), the "Codex aureus of St. Emmeram" (Clm 14000) written in the court school of Charles the Bald around 870, the book of gospels of Emperor Otto III from the time around 1000 (Clm 4453) as well as the Pericope (Clm 4452) of Emperor Henry II and the sacramentary crafted for him (Clm 4456); furthermore the "Uta Codex" written around 1025 (Clm 13601), fragments of the novel "Ruodlieb" (Clm 19486) authored around 1050 and written mostly in leoninic hexameters, the "Scheyern Matutinal Book" (Clm 17401), the world-famous manuscript of the Carmina Burana (Clm 4660) or - as an example for a modern Latin manuscript - the so-called prayer book of Prince Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria (Clm 23640).

In addition to  three codices produced in the Abbey of Reichenau the  six Latin (and two Greek) manuscripts kept by the Bavarian State Library, which once belonged to the famous Bibliotheca Corviniana, are of particular interest. Due to this fact they became part of UNESCO's programme  Memory of the World in 2003 and 2005 respectively.

 Overview of Holdings [PDF file, German]

 Catalogues (German)