Cataloging is complete for the manuscript collection of the StiftsMuseum Xanten, where the StiftsArchiv is now housed. This archive is where HMML filmed 338 manuscripts and archival records onto 282 microfilm reels in 1983, capturing images of documents dated as far back as 1119, when the archive belonged to the community of canons living at the prestigious Stift Sankt Viktor in Xanten. A large part of the collection includes more than 5,000 records documenting the collegiate foundation’s spiritual, legal, and economic presence in the Lower Rhine region. Also preserved are manuscripts that belonged to canons of Stift Xanten as well as to churches and parishes of the surrounding region, which arrived to the archive during the Napoleonic era due to consolidation efforts run by occupying French officials. HMML photographed a number of objects with color microfilm, especially liturgical texts such as an elaborately decorated 15th-century missal (HMML 38582), and a large series of maps of landholdings along the Rhine, including many by the prolific cartographer Johann Bücker (HMML 38753 007). View now