The Malta Study Center, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

The Malta Study Center, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Digital preservation of the cultural hertiage of Malta and the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

The Malta Study Center maintains a digital collection of over 2.5 million manuscript images and a microfilm collection of more than 16,000 documents and dossiers of documents from Malta, covering the period of the 12th to the 20th century. The materials include the Archives of the Knights of Malta, the Cathedral Museum in Mdina, the Archives of the Inquisition, ecclesiastical records of the dioces

es of Malta and Gozo, and musical compositions. The Center now sponsors digitization projects to preserve the history of Malta and the Knights of Saint John. It acquires antiquarian and modern publications dealing with Malta's history, literature, and culture, in addition to materials pertaining to the Knights of Saint John and Mediterranean history.

Not all volumes of the Registro delli patenti et bollettini of the Magna Curia Castellaniae are bound. The records The N...
05/28/2026

Not all volumes of the Registro delli patenti et bollettini of the Magna Curia Castellaniae are bound. The records The National Archives of Malta also include boxes of loose papers, most of which suffer from water and humidity damage. Our digitization project helps preserve these documents waiting for long-term conservation care.

A new acquisition to the Malta Study Center collection: "Listes de messieurs les chevaliers des trois venerables Langues...
05/27/2026

A new acquisition to the Malta Study Center collection: "Listes de messieurs les chevaliers des trois venerables Langues de Provence, Auvergne, et France, faittes en 1761" printed in Malta by Niccolò Capaci. See it in HMML Reading Room https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/609424

HMML's Malta Study Center is pleased to co-sponsor the one-day seminar, "The Order of Saint John and Family Archives: Ma...
05/25/2026

HMML's Malta Study Center is pleased to co-sponsor the one-day seminar, "The Order of Saint John and Family Archives: Mapping Hidden Networks of Memory" in partnership with the Library Information & Archive Sciences at UM, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, and generale Archivi to be held 11 June 2026 at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze. Attendance at the seminar is free and open to the public. The seminar is co-organized by Dr. Daniel K. Gullo and Dr. Valeria Vanesio.

Engraved portrait of Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena from the "Leggi, e constituzioni prammaticali rinuovate, rif...
05/23/2026

Engraved portrait of Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena from the "Leggi, e constituzioni prammaticali rinuovate, riformate, ed ampliate" printed in Malta in 1724, showing the Grand Master and Fort Manoel. Part of our digitization project at the Museum of the Order of St John.

My sincere thanks to the Order of Malta - Grand Priory of England for inviting me to present at their Chapter Talk at th...
05/21/2026

My sincere thanks to the Order of Malta - Grand Priory of England for inviting me to present at their Chapter Talk at the Priory in London, where I explored the role of images and iconography in cultivating the Order of Malta's identity and spirituality in early modern manuscripts and printed works. I am incredibly grateful for the hospitality and delightful conversation.

Large volume from the Registro delli patenti et bollettini series of the Magna Curia Castellaniae fonds at The National ...
05/20/2026

Large volume from the Registro delli patenti et bollettini series of the Magna Curia Castellaniae fonds at The National Archives of Malta currently being digitized by the Malta Study Center.

HMML's Malta Study Center uses digital technology to bring together museums from diverse countries so that their archive...
05/18/2026

HMML's Malta Study Center uses digital technology to bring together museums from diverse countries so that their archives, libraries, and museums can communicate each others shared history, such as William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford's late 19th-century study of the Archives of the Order volume 2173, which is now housed in the Museum of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem digitized by HMML's Malta Study Center. The study and the original are now shared in HMML Reading Room. https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/882226 and https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/213031

Visiting the Museum of the Order of St John with my colleague Dr Valeria Vanesio, where we are working on the provenance...
05/15/2026

Visiting the Museum of the Order of St John with my colleague Dr Valeria Vanesio, where we are working on the provenance of the collection as it was created in the nineteenth and early 20th century.

Digitizing one of the large account books of the Priory of Pisa of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem at the Archivio ...
05/13/2026

Digitizing one of the large account books of the Priory of Pisa of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze as part of our Langue of Italy project.

When women professed as sisters of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, they did so with the permission and approval of...
05/12/2026

When women professed as sisters of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, they did so with the permission and approval of the Prior of the Order that oversaw their community. Here we see the acknowledgment of two conversi entering the women's community of San GIovanni de Fieri in Pisa in 1791, and that their entrance has met all constitutional requirements for the monastery and the Order. Part of our Langue of Italy Project at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze

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Collegeville, MN
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