Metadata from 580 volumes of the Archives of the Inquisition of Malta Acta Civilia of the Cathedral Archives of Mdina, Malta, have been added to vHMML Reading Room. The Civil Tribunal of the Inquisition handled cases of patentees of the Holy Office, which were under the jurisdiction of the Inquisitor and outside the jurisdiction of the courts established by the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. The patentees were made up of three classes, officiali, who helped run the Holy Office, famigliari, friends of the Holy Office, and gabellotti, the Inquisitor's tenant farmers. The tribunal was headed by the Inquisitor. The manuscripts were microfilmed by the Malta Study Center as a private library during the 1970s. View now