VHMML offers resources and tools for the study of manuscripts and currently features manuscript cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The site houses high-resolution images of manuscripts, many of them digitized as part of HMML’s global mission to preserve and share important, endangered, and inaccessible manuscript collections through digital photography, archiving, and cataloging. It also contains descriptions of manuscripts from HMML’s legacy microfilm collection, with scans of some of these films.
Resources Available
- Reading Room: Provides digital access to items in HMML’s collections and repositories around the world, including Maltese, Armenian, Syrian, Turkish, and Ethiopic manuscripts.
- School: Teaches about scripts, manuscripts, and transcription, introducing learners to the sciences of paleography and codicology; includes Latin, Syriac, and Arabic scripts with material from the library collections.
- Data Portal: Provides option of exporting curated datasets or the complete vHMML Reading Room dataset for digital humanities projects.
- Museum: Provides access to HMML’s art and photograph collections, including the Robert A. Hadley Slide Collection (photos of archaeological and historic sites in the Middle East), photos of historical monasteries around the world.
- Digital Manuscript Collections: Include Western European, Maltese, Eastern Christian (Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Malayalam, Church Slavonic and Syriac), and Islamic collections as well as Rare Books and the St. John’s Bible recreated illuminated manuscript
See also
VHMML: Resources and tools for the study of manuscripts and currently features manuscript cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The site houses high-resolution images of manuscripts, many of them digitized
Vivarium: Digitized manuscripts from HMML and the collections from Saint John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict
vHMML School: Resources for learning paleography for multiple scripts, and manuscript codicology
Saint John’s University, College of Saint Benedict, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
