(This is a detailed 18th-century watercolor showing the ships of the Knights of Malta attacking Algerian vessels off the coast of Spain in 1736. The original is one of an album of 18th-century maritime watercolors in the collection of the Malta Study Center.)
MALTA STUDY CENTER, COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Manuscripts, archives, Knights of St. John, Knights of Malta, Malta, Rhodes
Mission
To preserve the history of Malta and the Knights of St. John by sponsoring digitization projects, and to make that history available to researchers.
Company Overview
The Malta Study Center is an integral part of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, a non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve endangered manuscripts, make them accessible to researchers, and to teach about the cultures that produced them.
Description
The Center maintains a microfilm collection of more than 16,000 documents and dossiers of documents from Malta, covering the period of the twelfth to the twentieth century. The materials include the Archives of the Knights of Malta, the Cathedral Museum in Mdina, the Archives of the Inquisition, ecclesiastical records of the dioceses of Malta and Gozo, and musical compositions. The Center is currently working with the National Archives of Malta, the Notarial Archives of Malta, and the Magistral Library of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Rome.
General Information
Hill Museum & Manuscript LibrarySaint John's University
Collegeville, MN 56321
www.hmml.org
Basic Info
| Founded | 1973 |
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| Location | P. O. Box 7300, Collegeville, MN 56321-7300 |
Contact Info
| Phone | 1 (320) 363-3993 |
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| tvann@csbsju.edu | |
| Website | http://www.hmml.org/centers/malta10/malt... |
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