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"Preservation is a new creation."
— Mgr. Antreas Bedoghlian, former Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem.

In the Benedictine tradition of reverence for human thought and creativity, the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library preserves manuscripts, printed books and art at Saint John's University and undertakes photographic projects in regions throughout the world.

HMML is the home of the world's largest collection of manuscript images and of The Saint John's Bible, a handwritten, illuminated Bible in modern English.

HMML's collections reveal how various cultures express their religious, artistic, and intellectual experience. It makes these resources available to students, researchers and visitors through advanced technology for imaging, cataloguing, and teaching.

HMML Highlights

Exciting opportunity for HMML Millennium Club members to experience Turkey and Syria.
HMML's manuscript preservation work featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Saint John's Bible folios to be exhibited along with the Dead Sea Scrolls


HMML featured in Wall Street Journal article

Thirty folios from the Saint John's Bible on display at HMML through October

HMML's project in India featured on PBS's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Curator of HMML's Austria/Germany Study Center, interviewed by Deutsche Welle radio on the collapse of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln

HMML Featured on American Public Radio's Speaking of Faith Program; follow this link