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Mdina Cathedral Museum Microfilm Project
Archivum Cathedrale Melitensis (A.C.M)
(The Archives
of the Cathedral of Malta )
An electronic finding aid for the microfilms of the Malta Study Center. Finding aid
prepared by Theresa M. Vann. Processing sponsored by the Malta Study Center, Hill
Museum & Manuscript Library. Catalogue created from microfilm inventory cards prepared by the
Cathedral Museum Microfilming Project, directed by Msgr. John Azzopardi.
Microfilms are housed in Mdina, Malta, Cathedral Museum and in the Hill
Museum & Manuscript Library. Original collection housed in Mdina, Malta, Cathedral Museum.
Reproduction of microfilms requires consent of the Cathedral Museum Committee of Mdina.
Addresses of depositories:
- Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321, USA
- Cathedral Museum, Archbishop Square, Mdina, RBT 12, Malta
Description of collection:
Abbreviated: ACM
Number of items: 1513 manuscripts
Age of materials: The materials date from 1419 until 1958,
although occasionally the contents date from an earlier
period. The earliest materials are found in the series
Miscellanea notitiarum.
Contents: The Archives of the Cathedral of Malta consists of
26 series, not including manuscripts and printed books. The
Archives contain the records of the administration of the
Cathedral's lands and the accounts of the Chapter.
Owner: The Cathedral Chapter of Mdina owns the
materials and the reproduction rights.
Status of Cataloguing: See John Azzopardi, ed., Archives of the Cathedral of Malta. Misc. 32A:
1313-1529. The Study and Text of an Eighteenth-Century Index of Transcripts. (Malta:
Malta Study Center of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, 1977); Stanley Fiorini, The
'Mandati' Documents at the Archives of the Mdina Cathedral, Malta (1473-1539).
(Malta: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Minnesota, and The Cathedral Musuem,
Malta, 1992). Index of the Archives of
the Cathedral of Malta
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