Verbrüderungsbücher#

Verbruederungsbuecher ("brotherhood books"), lists of names of patrons and benefactors of a monastery as well as people who were spiritually linked with a monastery through a prayer brotherhood. All large monasteries kept Verbruederungsbuecher in the Middle Ages. In Austria, the Salzburg Verbruederungsbuch, for example, which was created around 783 and continued until the 13th century, constitutes an important source of historical and linguistic information.