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Banca Giuratale, Mdina, Malta. ©HMML 2007

The Malta Study Center of the HMML began microfilming private and ecclesiastical archival collections on the island of Malta in 1974. The Center currently maintains a microfilm collection of more than 16,000 documents covering the history of Malta and the Knights (today known as the Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta) dating between the twelfth and the 20th centuries. Today, this collection represents the largest accumulation of Maltese and Sovereign Military Order of Malta archival materials under one roof.

Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Priory of Rome, Italy

The Knights have had a priory in Rome since 1214. The Priory of Rome has housed the headquarters of the Order since their departure from Malta in 1789. In 2005, HMML formed a partnership with the Grand Magistry of the Order to digitize all materials in the Priory archives that pre-date 1904. These include materials that shed light on the activities of the Priory itself and on the Order as a whole since its relocation.

National Archives of Malta, Banca Giuratale
Mdina, Malta

After successful completion of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) challenge grant endowing the Center and its work, the Center signed an agreement with the National Archives of Malta to digitize the Acta of Magna Curia Castellanae (MCC) in 2007. The MCC was the law court of the Knights in Malta, which heard civil and criminal cases. These court records, which date between 1545 and 1899 AD, are housed at the Banca Giuratale in Mdina on the island of Malta.


SMOM Cabreo 36, Cabreo della venerabile commenda di Ponte Corvo, Fondi e Gaudea fatto rinovare dall’illustrissimo Signore Commandatore F. D. Franconi Patrizio Napolitano. 18Th-century illustrated land survey of the Commendary of San Giovanni a Gaudo di Ponte Corvo, Fondi e Gaeta. Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Rome.
 


Finding Manuscripts from This Project in OLIVER, HMML's Online Manuscript Database

Records for manuscripts from the Sovereign Military Order of Malta are online. To find manuscript records from this collection in OLIVER, go to:
OLIVER Manuscript Search
and use the "City" drop-down menu to select the city, "Roma," and the "Library" drop-down to select, "
Magistral Palace."