The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Rome, Magistral Archives and Library
190 items
In 2005, the Malta Study Center of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library formed a partnership with the Grand Magistry of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to begin digitizing the archives, rare books, and manuscripts in the Magistral Archives and Library, in Rome. The archives contain records of visitations to the Order's European properties, the minutes of the meetings of the Sovereign Council after 1798, diplomatic correspondence between the Grand Master of the Order and the Order's ambassadors to the papal court, and the patents of nobility, the genealogical records candidates presented in order to join the Order. The work is being done onsite and under the supervision of the Order's employees. As part of its agreement, HMML will digitize and archive the documents that predate the year 1904. Samples, or in some cases the entire document, will be available online through Vivarium. The Archives and Library of the Grand Magistry is also digitizing research publications of the Order that are difficult to obtain elsewhere and making them available in digital form.
Addresses of Depositories:
Below is an initial handlist of digitized materials. Last updated 21 February 2013.
Alberi Genealogici (96 mss)
17th and 18th-century hand-colored proofs of nobility, submitted to the Priory of Rome by prospective members.
Cabreo (13 mss)
Accounts and audits of commanderies pertaining to the Priory of Rome, dating from the 18th-early 19th century. Sample images are available for some of the manuscripts.
Cabreo 36 (click for image)
Cabreo 93 (Click for image)
Cabreo 191
Cabreo 255
Casetta (4 mss)
18th-century records of the Priory of Rome's Casetta delle incurabili (House of the incurables). Sample images available online.
Casetta 1
Casetta 2
Casetta 1726
Casetta 1743
Manuscripts
SC 1803
MS 144
Miscellanea (28 mss)
Miscellanea 15 (Click for image)
Rivista -- Printed journal.
Bulletin Officiel de l'Ordre Souverain Militaire et Hospitalier de Saint Jean de Jèrusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte.
Official publication of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. 29 volumes, 1937-1993. Alternate titles:Rivista (1937); Rivista mensile illustrata (1938-1940); Rivista illustrata (1941-1952); Bulletin mensuel du Grand Magistère de l'Ordre S.M.H. de Malte (1954-1956); Bulletin Officiel (1959-1961); Bulletin officiel du Grand Magistère de l'Ordre S.M.H. de Malte (1962-1968); Rivista Internazionale dell'Ordine Sovrano Militare Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta (1969-1970).Books and manuscripts digitized 2011:
§ Papal Bulls (274 documents)
§ Cabreos (80 archival manuscripts)
§ Joseph Delaville le Roulx, Cartulaire général de l’Ordre des hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem (1110-1310) 4 vols (1894).
§ C. de Mons de Carantilly, Les chevaliers Francais de l’Ordre de Malte au xx siècle, leur origins, leur huit quartiers 3 vols (1967-1975)
§ Indice 1774 (Index of properties and commanderies of the Priory of Rome, Lombardy, Venice, Pisa, Barlette, Messina and Capua, 1774).
§ Indice 1784 (Index of improvements and land surveys of all commanderies of the Venerable Langue of Italy)
§ Indice 1816 (Index of improvements and land surveys of the seven priories of the Venerable Langue of Italy)
§ Rivista Internazionale dell’Ordine Sovrano Militare Ospedaliero de San Giovanni de Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta, vols 16-21 (1969-1974)
§ Frà Marc’ Antonio Zondadari, Breve e particolare istruzione del Sacro Ordine Militare degli Ospitalari(Paris, 1721). First edition.
§ Frà Marc’ Antonio Zondadari, Breve e particolare istruzione del Sacro Ordine Militare degli Ospitalari(Padua, 1724). Second edition.
§ Annales de l’Ordre Souverain Militaire de Malte, vols. 18-36 (1960-1978)
§ Album delle croci e costume del S.M.O. Gerosolimitano. 19th-century manuscript depicting uniforms and decorations of the Order of Malta.
§ [Barletta, 1722]. Stabilium et annuorum reddituum Venerandi Prioratus Sacre Religionis Sancti Johannis Hyerosolimitani civitati Baruli (The annual incomes of the Venerable Priory of Barletta, 1722).
§ Cormachini, Johan Michel. Beschreibung der Stende des Hel. Rhōmische[n] Reichs die Churfürsten/ Fürsten/ Prelaten/ Graven / Herm und des Hel. Rhō. Reichs Frev und Reichssteat Bottschaften. (1544).
§ Toumanoff, Cyril. Studies in Christian Caucasian History. (Georgetown, 1963)
§ Toumanoff, Cyril. Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour l’histoire de la Caucasie chrétienne (Arménie – Géorgie – Albanie). (Rome, 1976).
§ Pelasgo, Niceo. Discorso Accademico per l’esaltazione al trono di S.A.S. il Principie Fr. D. Ferdinando d’Hompesch. (Rome, 1797)
§ Gesner, Konrad. Historiae animalium (The history of animals). (Tegernsee, 1551)
§ Proof of Nicola Gioia (19th-century proof of nobility)
§ Correspondence between HH The Prince of Kauntz Rietberg and the Bailiff Baron de Hompesch (July 30, 1775-January 27, 1781)
§ Ministerial correspondence of the Bailiff Baron de Hompesch, January 1780 – May 1781.
§ Jacomo Curte, [Siege of Rhodes] (Venice, 1480)
§ Guillermus Caoursin, Rhodiorum historia [1480-1489]. (Ulm, 1496)
§ An ihr Rö: Kayserl: Majestat Dero Koniglichen Majestäzu Schweden Intervention – Schrift (Regensburg, 1653)
§ Noms et blazons de tous les Grands Maitres & tous les Chevaliers de l’Ordre de St. Jean de Hierusalem du Grand Prieuré de France (17th-century manuscript)
§ Mausolées des Grands Maitres de l’Ordre de S. Jean de Jerusalem (1781).
§ Proofs of nobility for the admission of Marquis Franco (alias Francesco) Spinola. (1912)
§ Liste generale de tous les Ch.ers de Malte reçus ou presents dans l’augberge de Provence depuis l’année 1513 jusques en l’année 1795 incl. mt. (18th-century manuscript)
§ Regles, et constitutions des Religieuses Hospitalieres de l’Ordre Sainct Iean de Ierusalem, establies au Monastere de S. Iean Baptiste, en la Ville de Tolose (Tolouse, 1644)
§ Ruolo generale del Sov.o M.e Ordine Gerosolimitano, 4 volumes (1871-80, 1886-90, 1895-00, 1905-10)
§ Bertini Frassoni, Carlo Augusto, Il Ruolo generale, le insigne e le uniformi del Sovrano Militare Ordine di S. Giovanni di Gerusalemme ditto di Malta (1929). Printed book with extensive annotations and corrections.
§ Stabilimenta militum Sacri Ordinis divi Joannis Hierosolymitani (Salamanca, 1534). Annotated. Very rare.
§ Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem (Rome, 1588). Very rare.
§ Theuville, Jean-Francois de. Journal des caravanes. (1752) (manuscript)
§ Rogadeo, Giandonato. Del ricevimento de’ Cavalieri, e degli altri fratelli dell’ insigne Ordine Gerosolimitano della Veneranda Lingua d’ Italia. (Naples, 1785)
In 2005, the Malta Study Center of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library formed a partnership with the Grand Magistry of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to begin digitizing the archives, rare books, and manuscripts in the Magistral Archives and Library, in Rome. The archives contain records of visitations to the Order's European properties, the minutes of the meetings of the Sovereign Council after 1798, diplomatic correspondence between the Grand Master of the Order and the Order's ambassadors to the papal court, and the patents of nobility, the genealogical records candidates presented in order to join the Order. The work is being done onsite and under the supervision of the Order's employees. As part of its agreement, HMML will digitize and archive the documents that predate the year 1904. Samples, or in some cases the entire document, will be available online through Vivarium. The Archives and Library of the Grand Magistry is also digitizing research publications of the Order that are difficult to obtain elsewhere and making them available in digital form.
Addresses of Depositories:
- Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, 2835 Abbey Plaza, Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321-7300 USA. Website: www.hmml.org
- Magistral Archives and Library, Sovereign Order of Malta, Via dei Condotti, 68 – 00187 Rome, Italy
Website: http://www.orderofmalta.int/library-and-archives/825/magistral-library/?lang=en
Below is an initial handlist of digitized materials. Last updated 21 February 2013.
Alberi Genealogici (96 mss)
17th and 18th-century hand-colored proofs of nobility, submitted to the Priory of Rome by prospective members.
Cabreo (13 mss)
Accounts and audits of commanderies pertaining to the Priory of Rome, dating from the 18th-early 19th century. Sample images are available for some of the manuscripts.
Cabreo 36 (click for image)
- Author: Camposelli della Rocca, Nicolas
- Supplied title: Cabreo della venerabile commenda di Ponte Corvo, Fondi e Gaudea fatto rinovare dall'illustrissimo Signore Commandatore F. D. Franconi Patrizio Napolitano
- Languages: Italian; Latin
- 636 ff
- Land-Survey of the Commendary of San Giovanni a Gaudo di Ponte Corvo, Fondi e Gaeta
- Date: 18th century (1739 October 27)
- Dimensions: 49x38.6x9 cm
- SMOM Cabreo 36
Cabreo 93 (Click for image)
- Author: Diolovede, Giuseppe
- Supplied title: Cabreo, Inventario, e Descrittione di tutte le terre, case, e chiese della commenda di S. Cassiano del Lago Trasimeno e di S. Croce di Perugia Porta dellla Sacra
- Languages: Italian; Latin
- ff. 142
- Land Survey of the Commandary of San Cassiano del Lago Trasimeno e di Croce di Perugie Porte San Pietro
- Date: 18th century (1723 December 30)
- Dimensions: 43.4x29.1x2.4cm
- SMOM Cabreo 93
Cabreo 191
- Author: Flori, Mutio
- Supplied title: (Land Survey of the Commandary of San Luca di Perugia
- Languages: Italian; Latin
- 226 ff
- Date: 17th century (1639 June 28)
- Dimensions: 351 x 242 x 22
- SMOM Cabreo 191
Cabreo 255
- Author: Darii, Domenico e Andree
- Supplied title: Land Survey of the Commandary of San Marco di Fano
- 472 ff
- Date: 17th century (1656 May 19)
- Dimensions: 42.2x28x7 cm
- SMOM Cabreo 255
Casetta (4 mss)
18th-century records of the Priory of Rome's Casetta delle incurabili (House of the incurables). Sample images available online.
Casetta 1
- Supplied title: Notizia della Sacra Infermeria e della carica delli commissari delle povere inferme.
- Language: Italian
- 52 ff
- Regulation of the Casetta delle incurabili
- Date: 18th century
- Dimensions: 27x20.1x.6 cm
- SMOM Casetta 1
Casetta 2
- Supplied title: History of the Casetta delle incurabili
- Languages: Italian; Latin
- 48 ff
- Date: 18th century (?)
- Dimensions: 31x22.5x.5 cm
- SMOM Casetta 2
Casetta 1726
- Supplied title: Report of the organisation of the Casetta delle incurabili
- Languages: Italian; Latin
- 12 ff
- Date: 18th century
- Dimensions: 28.5x20.4x.1 cm
- SMOM Casetta 1726
Casetta 1743
- Supplied title: Historical notes of the Casetta delle incurabili
- Language: Italian
- 4 ff
- Date: 18th century (?)
- Dimensions: 33.2x22.6.0.1cm
- SMOM Casetta 1743
Manuscripts
SC 1803
- Bullarum Liber 1803
- Latin
- i-ii, 342 ff.
- Papal bulls (documents from 1803-03-11 to 1803-12-26
- 19th century (1803)
- 30.8x22x2.6 cm
- SMOM SC 1803
MS 144
- Libro de segnali de vascelli di Malta
- Languages: French; Italian
- 30 ff
- Book of signals for the Order's vessals
- 18th century (17.9x11.5x.16 c)
Miscellanea (28 mss)
Miscellanea 15 (Click for image)
- Liste des Francais et Dames Francaises autorisès par le Roi à Porter l'Ordre de Malte
- Language: French
- 300 pp
- List of French knights and dames authorized by the king to wear the decoration of the Order of Malta.
- 18th/19th century (38.6 x 27.2 x 2.1 cm
Rivista -- Printed journal.
Bulletin Officiel de l'Ordre Souverain Militaire et Hospitalier de Saint Jean de Jèrusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte.
Official publication of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. 29 volumes, 1937-1993. Alternate titles:Rivista (1937); Rivista mensile illustrata (1938-1940); Rivista illustrata (1941-1952); Bulletin mensuel du Grand Magistère de l'Ordre S.M.H. de Malte (1954-1956); Bulletin Officiel (1959-1961); Bulletin officiel du Grand Magistère de l'Ordre S.M.H. de Malte (1962-1968); Rivista Internazionale dell'Ordine Sovrano Militare Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta (1969-1970).Books and manuscripts digitized 2011:
§ Papal Bulls (274 documents)
§ Cabreos (80 archival manuscripts)
§ Joseph Delaville le Roulx, Cartulaire général de l’Ordre des hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem (1110-1310) 4 vols (1894).
§ C. de Mons de Carantilly, Les chevaliers Francais de l’Ordre de Malte au xx siècle, leur origins, leur huit quartiers 3 vols (1967-1975)
§ Indice 1774 (Index of properties and commanderies of the Priory of Rome, Lombardy, Venice, Pisa, Barlette, Messina and Capua, 1774).
§ Indice 1784 (Index of improvements and land surveys of all commanderies of the Venerable Langue of Italy)
§ Indice 1816 (Index of improvements and land surveys of the seven priories of the Venerable Langue of Italy)
§ Rivista Internazionale dell’Ordine Sovrano Militare Ospedaliero de San Giovanni de Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta, vols 16-21 (1969-1974)
§ Frà Marc’ Antonio Zondadari, Breve e particolare istruzione del Sacro Ordine Militare degli Ospitalari(Paris, 1721). First edition.
§ Frà Marc’ Antonio Zondadari, Breve e particolare istruzione del Sacro Ordine Militare degli Ospitalari(Padua, 1724). Second edition.
§ Annales de l’Ordre Souverain Militaire de Malte, vols. 18-36 (1960-1978)
§ Album delle croci e costume del S.M.O. Gerosolimitano. 19th-century manuscript depicting uniforms and decorations of the Order of Malta.
§ [Barletta, 1722]. Stabilium et annuorum reddituum Venerandi Prioratus Sacre Religionis Sancti Johannis Hyerosolimitani civitati Baruli (The annual incomes of the Venerable Priory of Barletta, 1722).
§ Cormachini, Johan Michel. Beschreibung der Stende des Hel. Rhōmische[n] Reichs die Churfürsten/ Fürsten/ Prelaten/ Graven / Herm und des Hel. Rhō. Reichs Frev und Reichssteat Bottschaften. (1544).
§ Toumanoff, Cyril. Studies in Christian Caucasian History. (Georgetown, 1963)
§ Toumanoff, Cyril. Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour l’histoire de la Caucasie chrétienne (Arménie – Géorgie – Albanie). (Rome, 1976).
§ Pelasgo, Niceo. Discorso Accademico per l’esaltazione al trono di S.A.S. il Principie Fr. D. Ferdinando d’Hompesch. (Rome, 1797)
§ Gesner, Konrad. Historiae animalium (The history of animals). (Tegernsee, 1551)
§ Proof of Nicola Gioia (19th-century proof of nobility)
§ Correspondence between HH The Prince of Kauntz Rietberg and the Bailiff Baron de Hompesch (July 30, 1775-January 27, 1781)
§ Ministerial correspondence of the Bailiff Baron de Hompesch, January 1780 – May 1781.
§ Jacomo Curte, [Siege of Rhodes] (Venice, 1480)
§ Guillermus Caoursin, Rhodiorum historia [1480-1489]. (Ulm, 1496)
§ An ihr Rö: Kayserl: Majestat Dero Koniglichen Majestäzu Schweden Intervention – Schrift (Regensburg, 1653)
§ Noms et blazons de tous les Grands Maitres & tous les Chevaliers de l’Ordre de St. Jean de Hierusalem du Grand Prieuré de France (17th-century manuscript)
§ Mausolées des Grands Maitres de l’Ordre de S. Jean de Jerusalem (1781).
§ Proofs of nobility for the admission of Marquis Franco (alias Francesco) Spinola. (1912)
§ Liste generale de tous les Ch.ers de Malte reçus ou presents dans l’augberge de Provence depuis l’année 1513 jusques en l’année 1795 incl. mt. (18th-century manuscript)
§ Regles, et constitutions des Religieuses Hospitalieres de l’Ordre Sainct Iean de Ierusalem, establies au Monastere de S. Iean Baptiste, en la Ville de Tolose (Tolouse, 1644)
§ Ruolo generale del Sov.o M.e Ordine Gerosolimitano, 4 volumes (1871-80, 1886-90, 1895-00, 1905-10)
§ Bertini Frassoni, Carlo Augusto, Il Ruolo generale, le insigne e le uniformi del Sovrano Militare Ordine di S. Giovanni di Gerusalemme ditto di Malta (1929). Printed book with extensive annotations and corrections.
§ Stabilimenta militum Sacri Ordinis divi Joannis Hierosolymitani (Salamanca, 1534). Annotated. Very rare.
§ Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem (Rome, 1588). Very rare.
§ Theuville, Jean-Francois de. Journal des caravanes. (1752) (manuscript)
§ Rogadeo, Giandonato. Del ricevimento de’ Cavalieri, e degli altri fratelli dell’ insigne Ordine Gerosolimitano della Veneranda Lingua d’ Italia. (Naples, 1785)