The
Archives of the Knights of Malta
Section 11: The
Hospital
(Archive 1713-1749)
46 volumes
1590-1798
Abbreviated: AOM
An electronic
finding aid for the microfilms of the Malta Study Center,
prepared by
Theresa M. Vann.
Sponsored by the Malta Study Center, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library.
Microfilms at Hill Monastic Manuscript Library,
Collegeville, MN, USA
Originals in the National Library
of Malta, Valletta, Malta.
Reproduction of microfilms requires the consent
of the National Library of Malta
Section 11 of the archives of the Order’s Hospital in Valletta in the National
Library of Malta comprises forty-six volumes, dating from 1590 until 1798.
Six volumes of the archive contain information about the administration of the
hospital; thirty-eight volumes register the wills of patients of the Sacra
Infermeria between 1590 and 1798.
The
Hospitaller, a high-ranking official of the Order who held a seat on the council
of the Grand Master, was the head of the Sacra Infermeria. The
Infirmarian, the second in command, came from the French langue and was
responsible for the well-being of the patients and other inmates. Each
year the grand master and the council chose two comptrollers, or prud’hommes.
The comptrollers provisioned the Sacra Infermeria with food and equipment, took
inventory, and executed the wills of patients who died in the hospital. In
addition to the statutory personnel, the knights in residence in the convent,
including the grand master, took regular turns visiting the sick. Novices
served in the Sacra Infermeria once a week. Members of the order served as
physicians as well as spiritual caretakers.
The Rule of
the Sacra Infermeria (AOM 1713)
contains information about the staff of the Infermeria, its inventory of silver
and tapestry, and the building's physical layout.
The
scribes and notaries of the Sacra Infermia recorded the patients’ testaments in
thirty-eight surviving volumes (AOM 1720-1758). The inhabitants of the hospital
included members of the Order, Maltese men, women and children, and foreign
visitors and sailors. Their names are listed by volume in the printed catalogue:
J. Mizzi, Catalogue of the Records of the
Order of St. John of Jerusalem in the Royal Malta Library, vol. 11 (Malta,
1969)
AOM 1713
Notizia della Sacra Infermeria, e della Carica
delli commissari, delle povere Inferme (Rome,
1725), 19 pp. Printed work, later edited and translated by W.
K. R. Bedford, The Regulation of the Old Hospital of the
Knights of St. John at Valletta (Edinburgh, 1882). Also
translated and corrected by Edgar Erskine Hume, Medical
Work of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1940), pp. 136-148;
ibid., “Regulations for the Sick Poor of Malta,” pp. 159-165.
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AOM 1713A Regole della
Sac. Congregat. Sotto Titolo della Sstsa
Trinita, Eretta nel Sac. Spe. Dale del Sacr’ Ordine di S.
Giovani Gerosolimitano (December 1704)
27 ff. 18th-century handwritten copy of a
printed book. The volume contains handwritten notes of
a visitation upon the sodality in 1736, which changed rule
number eight, from the selection of one procurator from the
chaplains to two procurators selected from the fraters and the
chaplains. The book concludes with an indulgence granted by
pope Clement XI to the sodality.
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AOM 1714,
Regolamento per il Governo Spirituale, Politico, ed
Economico del Sacro Ospedale del S. Ordine Gerosolimitano,
f. I+vii+215. 18th century. Hand-written copy of AOM 1713.
The text of the volume is written on the right hand
side of the page, leaving the left side of the page for notes
and annotations. The owner of the volume used the space to
note changes in the rules and in the procedures of the
hospital. This section is followed by a copy of a 1699
magisterial bull of Raymond Perellos y Roccaful concerning
physicians and surgeons.
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AOM 1715, Officciali
del Sagro Ospedale che si passorono in Tesoro dal primo
Settembre 1777 , 28 ff, is divided into fourteen “cartas.”
With the exception of Cart 2, each carta contains information
about salaries from 1777 until 1795. Carta 2 is a note, dated
1777, stating that the Chapter General had suppressed all the
salaries, pensions, recompense, and charity that had been paid
in denaro and in kind from the S. Infermeria; and that it has
been decided that the new wages would be paid only in money;
that the coming salaries be paid according to the lists that
will be submitted monthly to the Prodomo and to the Treasury.
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AOM 1716 Conto del S.
Ospedale dal 1 Maggio 1795 fino a tutto Aprile 1796, 31 pp.
an account of the purchases of the hospital, which includes
the amount of monthly salaries, pensions to retired
physicians, and the purchase of food.
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AOM 1720, Registro dei Testamenti
dall'Anno 1590 al 1634 e Registro dei Morti dall'Anno 1590 al
1634, 217 folia. Registers the laity and Knights who died in
the Sacra Infermeria; also, registers the wills of the laity
and the disposition of goods made by the Knights.
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AOM 1721, Registro dei Testamenti
dall'Anno 1634 al 1650 e Registro dei Morti dal 1635 al 1676.
Parte I: Registro dei Testamenti dall'anno 1635 al 1650.
Parte II: Registro dei Testamenti dell'anno 1634 e 1635
e registro dei morti dall'anno 1633 al 1676.
105 + 201 folia. Part one records
the testaments and dispositions of goods made by those members
of the Order and laity who died in the Sacra Infermeria
between 1635 and 1650. Part two lists the names of all the
Knights and laity who died in the Sacra Infermeria between
1633 and 1676.
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AOM 1722, Registro dei Testamenti
dall' Anno 1666 al 1693 e Dispropriamenti dei Signori
dell'Abito dall'Anno 1661 al 1684. Parte I: [Titulo:] Les
testaments ou derniers volontes des seculiers et autres
personnes morts a la S. Infirmerie. Parte II: Depoullements
des biens faits par les religieux freers de l'Ordre de St.
Jean de Jerusalem et testaments des novices depuis l'annee
1666 jusqu' a 1684. 342 pages + 1-18+26-42 pages. Part I
contains the wills or last wishes of the lay (and other
people) who died in the Sacra Infermeria; Part II contains the
disposition of goods made by the members of the Order,
including the wills of the novices, between 1666 and 1684.
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AOM 1723, Registre des Testaments
Commencant au Mois D'Aout 1693 [-Nov. 1742], 571 pages.
Register of the wills made by the laity in the Sacra
Infermeria.
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AOM 1724, Registro delli Testamenti
che si Fanno nel Sacro Ospedale Principiato il 1 Gennaio 1743
[-14 Dec. 1767], 650pages. Register of the wills made by
those who died in the Sacra Infermeria between 1741 and 1767.
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AOM 1725, Registro dei Testamenti:
1767-85, 710 pages. Register of the wills made by those who
died in the Sacra Infermeria between December 4th,
1767, and January 16th, 1785. Pages 669-703
contains an alphabetical index.
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AOM 1726, Registro dei Testamenti
1785 [-19 Apr. 1798], 672 pages. Pages 633 to 667 contain an
alphabetical index.
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AOM 1727, Libro dei Testamenti fatti
nel S. Ospedale per mano dei Notari. 13 aprile 1773, 282
pages. Pages 233-250 contain an index of the names.
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AOM 1728, [Raccolta di
Testamenti Originali: 1666-1679], 146 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1729, [Raccolta di
Testamenti Originali: 1680-1689], 271 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1730 [volume missing]
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AOM 1731, [Testamenti
Originali, 1700-1709], 233 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1732, [Testamenti
Originali 1710-1719], 431 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1733, [Testamenti
Originali, 1720-1729], 388 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1734, [Testamenti
Originali, 1730-1739], 357 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1735, [Testamenti
Originali, 1740-1744], 204 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1736, [Testamenti
Originali, 1750-1752], 180 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1737, [Testamenti
Originali: 1753-1756], 197 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1738 [Testamenti
Originali, 1757-1759], 272 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1739 [Testamenti
Originali, 1760-1763], 288 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1740, [Testamenti
Originali: 1764], 84 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1740a, [Testamenti
Originali: 1764-1766], 170 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1741, [Testamenti
Originali: 1766-1769], 247 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1742, [Testamenti
Originali: 1770-1774], 300 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1743, [Testamenti
Originali: 1776-1779], 219 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1744, [Testamenti
Originali: 1780-1784], 262 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1745, [Testamenti
Originali, 1786-1789], 282 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1746, [Testamenti
Originali: 1790-1795], 276 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1747, [Testamenti
Originali: 1795-1798], 197 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1748, [Testamenti,
1747], 53 folia. Title supplied.
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AOM 1749, [Testamenti,
1775], 76 folia. Title supplied. |
