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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 dioceses 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.

The 1867 Statutes of the Most Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem copied by William R.K. Bedford while serving as...
10/23/2026

The 1867 Statutes of the Most Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem copied by William R.K. Bedford while serving as librarian of the Order in London. Part of our digitization project at the Museum of the Order of St John. The volume also contains later statutes and rolls of the Order.

This week we are visiting our studio at the Museum of the Order of St John in London, where we are now starting a new ph...
10/22/2026

This week we are visiting our studio at the Museum of the Order of St John in London, where we are now starting a new phase of the digitization project focusing on the drawings, maps, and, prints in the collection. The drawing collection stands out for its remarkable watercolors dedicated to the costume of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, including these designs by Vincenzo Fenech.

Two lovely illuminated bindings for the Gurge family submitted as part of a proof of admission into the Priory of Venice...
10/20/2026

Two lovely illuminated bindings for the Gurge family submitted as part of a proof of admission into the Priory of Venice, part of our new project at the Grand Priory of Lombardy and Venice.

New stand being used at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze with our new camera that is used for highly decorated objects l...
10/19/2026

New stand being used at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze with our new camera that is used for highly decorated objects like the land survey (cabreo) shown below.

Some of the volumes of the archive of the Priory of Pisa of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem being prepared for digi...
10/17/2026

Some of the volumes of the archive of the Priory of Pisa of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem being prepared for digitization at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze as part of our Langue of Italy project.

Visiting the studio today at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze where we found this illuminated binding with the arms of F...
10/16/2026

Visiting the studio today at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze where we found this illuminated binding with the arms of Fra Pompeo Rospigliosi for the Cabreo of the Commenda di San Pietro e San Giovanni in Luca dated 1636.

Today we found a lovely decorated initial with the coat of arms of the order and spoils of war. Part of our new project ...
10/14/2026

Today we found a lovely decorated initial with the coat of arms of the order and spoils of war. Part of our new project at the Grand Priory of Lombardy and Venice.

The series of the Cavalieri di Giustizia in the Archive of the Priory of Lombardy and Venice currently being digitized b...
10/12/2026

The series of the Cavalieri di Giustizia in the Archive of the Priory of Lombardy and Venice currently being digitized by the Malta Study Center. Such documents are essential for building authority files that will help create access to these and related documents in the collection.

A list of dignitaries of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem who receive the Grand Cross from an 18th-century manuscrip...
10/11/2026

A list of dignitaries of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem who receive the Grand Cross from an 18th-century manuscript at the Museum of the Order of St John . Such lists often were often bound in copies of statutes of the Order of Saint John printed in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Saint John's University, 2835 Abbey Road
Collegeville, MN
56321

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Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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