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• Historia monastica, di d. Pietro Calzolai (Appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1561), by Pietro Calzolai (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogus sanctorum et beatorum totius ordinis Camaldulensis (Apud Volcmarum Timan, 1606), by Thomas de Minis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sommaire des principaux fondateurs et reformateurs des ordres religieux : auec leurs pourtraicts, ensemble leurs institution et confirmation, le tout disposé selon l'ordre des tempts (Chez Michel van Lochom ..., 1635), by Louis Beurrier, Jeronimus Wierix, Schelte Bolswert, Boëce van Bolswert, and Michel van Lochom (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cantacuzène : homme d'état et historien, ou, examen critique comparatif des mémoires de l'empereur Jean Cantacuzène et des sources contemporaines, et notament des 30 livres dont 14 inédits de l'histoire byzantine de Nicéf. Grégoras qui controlent les mémoires de Cantacuzène (Joubert, 1845), by Valentin Parisot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curriculum vitae et carmina. (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1896), by Blemmydes Nicephorus and August Heisenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gildas' The ruin of Britain (Published for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion by D. Nutt, 1899), by Gildas and Hugh Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gildae De excidio Britanniae : fragmenta, Liber de paenitentia, accedit et Lorica Gildae = Gildas' The ruin of Britain : fragments from lost letters, The penitential, together with the Lorica of Gildas (Published for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion by D. Nutt, 1899), by Gildas and Hugh Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• La giovinezza di Pietro Giordani: da carteggi e documenti inediti (Roux Frassati, 1896), by Gaetano Capasso (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miabankʻ ew aytsʻelukʻ hay Erusaghēmi (880-03 Erusaghēm : Tparan Srbotsʻ Hakobeantsʻ, 1929., 1929), by Mkrtichʻ Aghawnuni and Armenian Church. Erusaghēmi Patriarkʻutʻiwn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zhizneopisanīe nastoi͡ateli͡a Maloi͡aroslavet͡skago Nikolaevskago monastyri͡a (Moskva, 1870), by Hieromonk Kliment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Troit͡skīĭ paterik, ili, Skazanīi͡a o svi͡atykh ugodnikakh bozhīikh, pod blagodatnym voditelʹstvom prepodobnago Sergīi͡a, v ego troit͡skoĭ i drugikh obiteli͡akh podvigom prosīi͡avshikh. (Izd. Svi͡ato-Troit͡skoĭ Sergīevoĭ lavry, 1896), by Mikhail Tolstoĭ and Troit͡se-Sergieva lavra (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ermolaĭ Pregri͡eshnyĭ, novyĭ pisatelʹ ėpokhi Groznago i ego sochinenii͡a (Tip. Glav. Upr. Udi͡elov, 1911), by monk Erazm and I. A. Shli︠a︡pkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• A few facts from my life as Father Superior of a monastery in Spain, and as apostolic missionary in South America (Mirror Print. House, 1896), by Manuel Ferrando (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Mantis and his friends. (T. M. Miller; London and Oxford, B. Blackwell ltd., 1924), by W. H. I. Bleek, Dorothea Frances Bleek, Lucy C. Lloyd, and Alexander Street Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miabankʻ ew aytsʻelukʻ hay Erusaghēmi (880-03 Erusaghēm : Tparan Srbotsʻ Hakobeantsʻ, 1929., 1929), by Mkrtichʻ Aghawnuni and Armenian Church. Erusaghēmi Patriarkʻutʻiwn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts (Longmans, Green, 1890), by Mrs. Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein alt Büchlein über Moencherey. (s.n.], 1803), by Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and organization of the monks and nuns as described in Saint Jerome's epistles (1911), by Bessie Estelle Shackell (page images at HathiTrust)
• About monks and nuns (Catholic Truth Society, 1893), by Edward A. Foran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historie van de bedriegeryen der prietseren en moniken in de Roomsche kerke : ontdekt door zeeker reyziger, in zijne gedane zeer nauwkeurige voyagien, door Italien, Vrankrijk, Switserland, en Duytsland, en briefs gewjze aan zijne vrienden geschreven (By Anthony Schouten ..., 1695), by Antonio Gavin, Anthony Schouten, and H. V. Quellenburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monastery. (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vardapetutʻiwn Aṛakʻelotsʻ anvawerakan kanonatsʻ mateaně, Tʻughtʻ Hakobay aṛ Kodratos ew Kanonkʻ Tʻaddēi : kʻnnutʻiwn ew bnagirkʻ (Mkhitʻarean Tparan, 1896), by Hakovbos Tashean (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mysterious Mother: A Tragedy (London, 1791), by Horace Walpole (page images at Google)

• Regula. English (Printed at Gant : By Ioos Dooms, [1632]), by Saint Benedict, Alexia Gray, and Brussels (Belgium). Our Blessed Lady the Perpetuall Virgin Mary (Abbey of Benedictine nuns) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Étude sur les moines d'Égypte : depuis le Concile de Chalcédoine (451) jusqu'à l'invasion arabe (640) (Cisalpino-Goliardica, 1973), by Paul van Cauwenbergh (page images at HathiTrust)

• The conversion of the Anglican monks of Caldey (Catholic Truth Society of Canada, 1918), by Cyrille Gagnon (page images at HathiTrust)
• La conversion des moines anglicans de Caldey (Catholic Truth Society of Canada, 1918), by Cyrille Gagnon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Devil's Elixir (2 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1829), by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Monk, by M. G. Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (Chicago, F. J. Schulte and Co., 1892), by Ambrose Bierce and Adolphe Danziger, contrib. by Richard Voss, illust. by Theodor Hampe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1911), by Adolphe Danziger and Ambrose Bierce, contrib. by Richard Voss (Gutenberg text)
• Rosario, or, The Female Monk: A Romance (first American edition of "The Monk"; ca. 1891), by M. G. Lewis, contrib. by Max Maury, illust. by Auguste Leroy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1915), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Pauline Bancroft Flach (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Paul Ardenheim, the Monk of Wissahikon (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1848), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (Boston: Occult Pub. Co., 1890), by Franz Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seikkailu Rosenkreuziläisten Luona (An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians in Finnish; Vyborg: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Tietäjä, 1922), by Franz Hartmann, trans. by Kyllikki Ignatius (Gutenberg text)
• With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (new and revised edition; London: W. Rider and Sons, ca. 1910), by Franz Hartmann (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (second edition, revised; New York: Theosophical Pub. Co., 1910), by Franz Hartmann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The tempting of Father Anthony (A. C. McClurg & Co., 1901), by George Horton, Frederic W. Goudy, and A.C. McClurg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female monk. (Laird & Lee, 1891), by M. G. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monk. (J.A. Clussman, 1830), by M. G. Lewis and Joseph A. Clussman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confessional of the Black Penitents (printed for A.W. Newman and Co., 1828), by Ann Radcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monk; a romance. (Printed for the Booksellers, 1832), by M. G. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rosario, or The female monk (Temple, 1800), by M. G. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monastery. (J.R. Osgood and co., 1872), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monastery. (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Elixiere des Teufels : Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus, eines Kapuziners (in German), by E. T. A. Hoffmann, illust. by Ernst Stern (Gutenberg ebook)
• Antonio, by Ernest Oldmeadow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Munkin häät (in Finnish), by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, trans. by Toini Kalima (Gutenberg ebook)
• Martin Valliant, by Warwick Deeping (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 2 (of 2), by E. T. A. Hoffmann, trans. by R. P. Gillies (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 1 (of 2), by E. T. A. Hoffmann, trans. by R. P. Gillies (Gutenberg ebook)

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