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In 1980, HMML began the first phase of filming at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon. Among the first manuscripts to be microfilmed were the manuscripts of the Fundo Alcobaça, which once belonged to the former Royal Cistercian Monastery of Santa Maria a Velha or Alcobaça. From its founding in 1153 until it was sacked in 1843, Alcobaça played a significant role in the history of Portugal and the Cistercian Order. Its surviving manuscripts form an important body of sources for many fields of study.

Spain

In 1973, the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) began filming at the Benedictine monastery at Montserrat. In the years that followed, filming was completed in 29 Spanish libraries, mostly in Catalonia, resulting in one of HMML’s most extensive collections.
Toledo, Biblioteca del Cabildo, Codex 56-10, f. 87b

This miniature of Christ in the house of Mary and Martha was executed at Toledo in the year 1600 by the illuminator Juan de Salazár. It is from a missal in several volumes illuminated between 1583 and 1604 by Juan de Salazár and Martiñez de los Corrales.

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HMML filmed in the library of the Abbey of Montserrat, a Benedictine Monastery founded in 1025. It has been a pilgrimage center since the middle ages.