Napoleon's Troops Burned the library and archives of the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat.
Medieval music manuscripts burned.
The Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat library located on the mountain of Montserrat in Catalonia was established in the eleventh century. Abbot Garcia Jiménez de Cisneros established a typographic workshop in 1499.
The library was burned by Napoleon’s troops in 1811 and 1812.1 The archive of the oldest music school in Europe, the Escolania de Montserrat, was also burned.