They heard bits and pieces of it read aloud in Latin during the masses they attended, but the idea that there was a book containing all of these things was foreign to them, even in the decades after Gutenberg published his celebrated first Bibles. This did not mean that monks were unacquainted with much of what the Bible taught and said, but even for them biblical material was filtered by and parsed via the institution of the church, so one caught snippets here and there, but to think of them collected in the Bible itself was still rather a rare idea.
