Mediterranean Manuscripts: HMML Special Collections
Mediterranean Manuscripts
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) maintains an important and diverse collection of manuscripts from across the Mediterranean. These manuscripts represent traditions from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa and include religious, legal, historical, and literary manuscripts.
Highlights
Italian Manuscripts
- 15th-century Juvenal's Satires and Persius's' Satires (MacGregor Ms. 1)
- 16th-century works on the Life of Saint Jerome (HMML 00435)
- 15th-century Latin grammar (SJU Ms. 4)
- 14th-century monastic miscellany (Kacmarcik Ms. 3)
- 16th-century constitutions of the Augustinian Canons (Kacmarcik Ms. 5)
Islamic manuscripts
- 19th-century Commentary on al-Zarnūjī's treatise Taʻlīm al-mutaʻallim (Ms. Or. A 6)
- 19th-century Qur’an (Ms. Or. A 7)
- 19th-century Dalāʼil al-khayrāt by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī (Kacmarcik Ms. 27)
- 19th-century Commentary on al-Jāmī's commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's grammar al-Kāfiyah (Henze Ms. Arabic 1)
- 16th-century Commentary on al-Bayḍāwī's commentary Anwār al-tanzīl (Ms. Or. A 9)
Spanish manuscripts
- 14th-century formulary correspondence between the bishop and canons of the Cathedral of Barcelona (Steiner Ms. 24)
- 16th-century Antiphonary (SJU Ms. 3)
- 16th-century Dominican Processional (Kacmarcik Ms. 4)
- 1519 Carta ejecutoria de sentencia de revista between Pedro Manrique, Conde de Osorno (Kacmarcik Ms. 28)
- 19th-century Processional (SJU Ms. 7)
Eastern Christian manuscripts
- 20th-century Book of canonical hours (Kacmarcik Ms. 27)
- 18th-century Octoechos (Byzantine Rite) (Ms. Or. A 1)
- 17th-century marriage ritual (Byzantine Rite) (Kacmarcik Ms. 10)
- 14th-century anaphora and liturgical prayers (Kacmarcik Ms. 6)
- 10th-century liturgical chants and palimpsest (HMML Ms. Frag. 32)
French manuscripts
- Journal dela Compagne dela fregatte L'Iris, 1789-1790 (Malta Ms. 3)
- Correspondence relating to the Treaty of Ulm, 1620 (Malta Ms. 1)
- Prières pendant la Messe à l’usage de Madame la Comtesse de Voisenon, 1752 (Kacmarcik Ms. 19)
- Livre des repons, antiennes, et oraisons, appartenant a la soeur de sainte Theresse, religieuse de l'Hotel Dieu de Laon, 1721 (SJU Ms. 21)
- Prières pendant la Messe à l’usage de Madame de Montmartel, 1753 (Kacmarcik Ms. 18)