The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

In 1965, Saint John's Abbey and University embarked on a mission of preserving manuscripts on microfilm and providing access to these resources to scholars. Over the years, other collections of art, rare books, photographs, etc., have been added to HMML's holdings, creating a number of collections. HMML also provides web hosting for a number of sponsored collections.

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The collections of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library offer the Internet user access to photographs, art images, and scans from selected manuscripts and rare books.
 
About HMML's Collections

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library  
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library has been preserving manuscripts in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East since 1965. HMML's collection includes 90,000+ manuscripts on microfilm and in digital form. HMML also holds original manuscripts given by generous friends. Scholars should consult HMML's electronic catalogue and other resources at www.hmml.org for information about specific manuscripts or manuscript collections.

HMML Color Microfilms  
From 1965 to the 1980's, Teams of scholars from HMML photographed manuscripts on black-and-white microfilm at various locations in Europe. In addition, they photographed selected illuminations and other items of interest with color film. Recently, the color films have been scanned and are being put on Vivarium. New images are added on an ongoing basis.

Arca Artium  
Arca Artium is a collection of art, books, archives, and sound recordings devoted to the liturgy, monasticism, architecture, typography and the book arts, printmaking, and other topics given to Saint John's University by Frank Kacmarcik (1920-2004).

Saint John's Rare Books  
Saint John's Rare Books is the historic collection of Saint John's Abbey, augmented by Saint John's University.
The collection is particularly rich in theological literature, German religious works (with original 16th-18th century bindings), autographs and manuscripts.

Personal Collections  
Among the Personal Collections of faculty, staff and friends in Vivarium are photographs of monastic and other Christian sites in Europe and the Middle East. 

Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project
The Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP) was started in the Spring of 2005 by Steve Delamarter with the mission to help preserve images of Ethiopia ’s manuscript heritage and make them available for scholarly study. The manuscripts were located in the possession of university libraries, dealers and private owners.

eBeth Arké
Beth Arké is a collection of digitized materials related to Syriac studies and the churches of the Syriac Christian tradition. It is a project of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, complementing the Syriac Studies Reference Library hosted by Brigham Young University.

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