The Cistercian house at Wilhering has roots going back to 1146, when an earlier Augustinian foundation was given over to this new order. The monastery is located in Upper Austria, just south of the Danube River and a short distance to the west of the provincial capital Linz. Although the house nearly closed during the Reformation, it was revived by the emperor and survived into modern times. Nearly the entire complex burned down in 1733 and was then rebuilt in Rococo style. HMML filmed close to 150 manuscripts at Wilhering. The earliest is an 11th-century hagiographical collection focusing on Saints Afra and Ulrich. Other early books from the 12th century include works by Bernard of Clairvaux and Alcuin of York.

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Metadata for 520 volumes of Series 6, Treasury, of the Archives of the Order of Malta have been added to vHMML Reading Room. Documents pertaining the activity of the Treasury of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta. The Treasury was the institution/office in charge of managing finances, collecting revenues, administer Hospitaller properties in the central Convent and in Europe, making and supervising expenses for the functioning of the Order. View now

Metadata for 68 volumes of Series 10, Statutes and Ordinances, ca. 1300-ca. 1800, of the Archives of the Order of Malta have been added to vHMML Reading Room. Documents recording statutes, ordinances (ordinationes), rules and regulations issued by the General Chapter of the Order of Saint John. Records also include privileges granted by popes and sovereigns, treaties, summaries, notes, comments, and controversies related to statutes, dignities, privileges, and magistral election. View now

14 volumes of the Curiae Episcopalis et Provicarialis Notabilis Civitatis fonds (CAN) at the the National Archives of Malta added to vHMML Reading Room. Records of civil and criminal proceedings of the episcopal courts of Malta, the Curia Episcopalis Civitatis Notabilis and Curia Provicariales. Records include legal proceedings and trials concerning benefices, renunciations, taxes, property, petitions, donations, marriages, privileges, legal declarations, among other major affairs related to the jurisdiction of the bishop of Malta. View now

Wilten is located on the ancient Roman site Veldidena (hence its name) at the foot of Berg Isel--now within the city limits of Innsbruck but in medieval times outside. Legend ascribes to the giant Haymo the foundation of a Benedictine house here around 870. Sometime before 1138 Bishop Reginbert of Bressanone/Brixen summoned Premonstratensian canons from the Swabian house of Roth to continue where a former collegiate church had been. The new establishment became an abbey in 1250 and was a double monastery till the end of the thirteenth century. Its heyday was perhaps the mid-fifteenth century when Nicolaus of Cusa dreamed of turning it into the center of a new network of reforms. Wilten thrived in the eighteenth century but was suppressed under Bavarian rule 1807-1816 and again under Hitler 1939-1945. Part of the library was carried off by the Bavarians and is now in the Universitätsbibliothek Innsbruck. The present holdings are mainly sermon books of the fifteenth century, many evidently gathered in from parish libraries such as that of Hall in Tirol.

Situated in the Krems valley about SO miles south of Linz, Schlierbach was first founded as a nunnery in 1355 by Count Eberhard V of Wallsee, governor of Upper Austria. The nuns came from the convent of Baindt in Wurttemberg (see the calendar from Baindt in MS 92). The poorly provided convent died out in 1554 as a consequence of the Reformation. Emperor Ferdinand II reestablished Schlierbach with Cistercian monks from Rein in 1620. The monastery has a library of 30,000 books including 176 MSS and 94 incunables. Perhaps the most remarkable MSS are the law books and chronicles which formed part of the rich Enenkel Library, inherited by Schlierbach after the death of the last family member, the humanist Job Hartmann Enenkel (1627). Other outstanding MSS are the 12th to 14th century New Testament (MS 15), the copy of Thomasin von Zerclaere's poem Der Welsche Gast (MS 28), and the architectural papers of Baron Widerraitel (MS 17).

Metadata for 77 manuscripts from the Spogli fonds at the Cathedral Archives of Malta added to vHMML Reading Room. Documents concerning the legacy of deceased members of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta and the administration and judgments of the commissioners of the spoils (commissari degli spogli). Documents include legal records, judicial proceedings, reports, lists of goods, and accounts. The two subseries (proceedings and judgments) in the series may reflect the original organization, and not the modern classification. Related documents once belonged to the same archive in series 6 Treasury at the National Library of Malta. View now

Metadata from 1100 manuscripts at the Tiroler Landesarchiv in Innsbruck, Austria added to vHMML. Records for these microfilms are now in vHMML. The Landesarchiv has roots going back to the 13th century and represents a deep resource for the medieval and early modern history of Tyrol, as well as other areas that were once part of the Habsburg lands (e.g., Alsace-Lorraine in France and South Tyrol in Italy). The holdings are especially rich in records for religious houses that were closed by emperor Joseph II in the course of the Josephine reforms in the 18th century—for example, the Regelhaus and Versperrtes Kloster in Innsbruck. Records include account books, land registers, wine registers, inventories of closed religious houses, as well materials on many other topics. View now

Metadata for 467 volumes of Series 9, Correspondence, ca. 1586-1798, of the Archives of the Order of Malta have been added to vHMML Reading Room. Correspondence of the Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem with ambassadors, priors and other members of the Order in Europe, European sovereigns, and the papacy. Records include correspondence between the procurators of the Treasury (procuratori del Tesoro) of the Order and the Order's receivers (ricevitori) in Europe, which once belonged to the archive of the Treasury (Archives of the Order of Malta Series 6 at the National Library of Malta). Related documents also in AOM series 1 at the National Library of Malta. View now

Metadata for 22 objects from a Franciscan monastery in Güssing, fifty miles east of Graz, have been added to vHMML Reading Room. Founded in the mid-17th century by Count Adam Batthyány, the monastery’s twenty-two codices were both photographed and catalogued by HMML. These codices come from the Batthyány library and be traced back to the 15th century collection of Count Balthasar, a contemporary of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. Among the codices are two Breviaries from Transylvania. View an object here: View now

Metadata for 159 volumes of Series 13, the Conventual Church, ca. 1300 -1813, of the Archives of the Order of Malta have been added to vHMML Reading Room. Records pertaining to the activity of the Conventual Church of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta. Records include deliberations, decrees, bulls, death records, trials and controversies, liturgical and ceremonial records, privileges, benefices, regulations, inventories, accounts, legacies (legati), visitations, letters patent, petitions, and reports. Volumes also concern the Bull of the Crusade (Bolla della Crociata) and the printing press of the Grand Master. Documents related to churches, congregations (congregazioni), confraternities (confraternite), and monasteries of the Order in Malta and Europe are also included. View now

70 manuscripts from the collection of the Coptic Monastery of Saint Macarius (Dayr Qiddīs Anbā Maqqār) in Wadi Natrun, Egypt, have been uploaded and cataloged in vHMML Reading Room. This monastery, founded in the 4th century by Saint Macarius of Egypt, is among the oldest and most renowned Coptic monasteries in Egypt. The manuscripts cataloged in this collection include Bibles, stories of saints, and apocryphal narratives. Almost all are in Arabic; a few are in Coptic with parallel translation in Arabic, and several include Coptic fragments reused in the bindings. The manuscripts range in date from the 13th century to the early 20th century. Digitization of the collection is ongoing. View now

Metadata for 2965 music manuscripts from the  Cathedral Archives in Mdina have been added to vHMML Reading Room. These collection were microfilmed by HMML's Malta Study Center during the 1970s and 1980s. The music archives include music manuscripts dating back to the 17th century, with original scores from Francesco Azopardi and Benigno Zerafa. The collection also includes the important family collections of the Nani and Vella composers, in addition to the manuscripts of Carmelo Pace. HMML's Malta Study Center sponsored four printed catalogs of these collections, which are now linked to these records through archive.org. View now

Metadata for 524 volumes of the Archivium Inquisitionis Melitensis have been added to vHMML Reading Room, including 35 volumes of the Memorie lasciate dagli Inquisitori di Malta and 296 volumes of the Processi e denunzie. Registers, repertories, and the Miscellanea fonds also have been added. The Roman Inquisition in Malta was established in Malta in 1561 and abolished in 1798. View now

We have added 3 volumes of the Tribunal Segnaturae Justitae fonds at the the National Archives of Malta to vHMML Reading Room. The TSJ fonds contain Acta Originalia of legal proceedings during the period of the French Occupation of Malta, 1798-1800. View now

We have added 14 volumes of the Officium Syndicatus Congregationis Munium et Belli fonds at the the National Archives of Malta to vHMML Reading Room. The OMB fonds were instituted by the Venerable Congregation of War of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalemto raise funds for the defense of the island and for the upkeep of the walls, and to deal with permissions and controversies related to these matters. View now

498 records from the Archives of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Rosary in Valletta, Malta, have been added to vHMML Reading Room. The Archconfraternity of the Holy Rosary was founded under the auspices of the Dominican Order circa 1575, and was associated with the Church of Saint Mary of Porto Salvo and the Dominican Priory in Valletta, where its chapel is located. Members of the Archconfraternity dedicated themselves to the ministry of those condemned to capital punishment in Malta among other charitable activities. The digitization project was done in partnership with the Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti and the de Piro family. View now

Metadata for 58 volumes of Series 7, Papal Bulls, ca. 1400-1796, of the Archives of the Order of Malta have been added to vHMML Reading Room. In 58 registers and volumes. Documents issued by the Pope and addressed to the Grand Master and the members of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, and preserved by the Chancery of the Order. Registers include copies of papal bulls (bullaria) and original papal briefs granted to the Grand Master and to individual knights concerning confirmation of statutes and ordinances, privileges, graces, and dispensations for members of the Order. View now

In 104 volumes of the Archivium Inquisitionis Melitensis, Corrispondenza, 1577-1798, have been added to vHMML Reading Room. Volumes 1 to 93 contain correspondence sent from Rome to Malta. Volumes 94 to 104 contain correspondence sent from Malta to Rome. Most of this series has been scanned and is available in vHMML Reading Room. The Roman Inquisition in Malta was established in Malta in 1561 and abolished in 1798. View now

Metadata for 1097 volumes of Series 15, Proofs of the Langue of Italy ca.1540-1798, of the Archives of the Order of Malta have been added to vHMML Reading Room. Records of the admission procedure for membership to the Langue of Italy and its seven priories in the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta. Records include genealogical trees, family and church records, notarial records, correspondence, and legal documents from the Order of Saint John for Knights, servants of arms, and chaplains. View now