Special Collections
Special Collections
Complementing HMML’s digital collections is the Special Collections at HMML and Saint John's University, which include more than 11,000 printed books and hundreds of manuscripts that support HMML’s global field work in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Used for teaching and research, the Special Collections include five distinct collections with materials spanning the ancient to modern periods:
- Saint John's University. Rare Book and Manuscript Collection
- Arca Artium. Rare Book and Manuscript Collection
- Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Rare Book and Manuscript Collection
- Malta Study Center Collection
- The Saint John’s Bible
Highlights
- Shakespeare second folio, the second edition of his collected works, from 1632
- Bibles including the first polyglot edition of a printed Bible text - the Genoa Psalter (1516) - and the first print edition of the Gospels in Arabic (1590/1591)
- 9th-century Carolingian fragments containing a Bible commentary by Smaragdus
- Books of Hours, including Bean Ms. 2, a little gem filled with drolleries and beautiful miniatures, and medieval antiphonaries - giant choir books for monastic singing
- Medieval Georgian-Syriac Palimpsest (HMML Ms. Frag 32) described in the HMML Palimpsest Project
- Kacmarcik Codex, a 14th-century Greek-Arabic manuscript of the Coptic Mass
- Global manuscript studies - manuscripts from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, including over 55 Ethiopian manuscripts and scrolls and 30 Arabic-script manuscripts
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Date Range
6th-20th century -
Languages
English, Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Ge’ez, Arabic, Dutch, Hebrew; with examples of script and print in many other languages, including Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Church Slavonic, Georgian, Persian, Samaritan -
Curator
Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Curator of Western European Manuscripts & Curator of Rare Books for rare books and manuscripts -
Visit
To visit Special Collections or The Saint John’s Bible, contact HMML hmml@hmml.org