Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota. It is a searchable database delivering a variety of digital objects, with collections including material from the institutions’ history as well as their manuscript holdings.
Resources Available
- Saint Benedict’s Monastery: The archivists at the St. Benedict’s Monastery, home of the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn., document the history and mission of this Catholic order with more than 4,000 artifacts dating to 1857.
- Saint John’s Abbey Collection: Consists of art, artifacts, and archival materials gathered by the monks of Saint John’s Abbey since the monastery’s founding in 1856.
- Saint John’s Abbey Archives: Preserves the life and history of the abbey and its members, through manuscript collections, letters, diaries, journals, publications, clippings, photographs, audiotapes, films, oral histories, and liturgical and spiritual materials. The Saint John’s Abbey Archives project for Minnesota Reflections shows the Catholic culture and people of rural Central Minnesota from 1872 to 1908.
- HMML Color Microfilms: Color images of illuminations from the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- SGD Collections: The Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP) was started in the Spring of 2005 by Steve Delamarter with the mission to help preserve images of Ethiopia’s manuscript heritage and make them available for scholarly study.
- Sullivan Collection: The Sullivan Collection contains over 200 religious artifacts, chiefly icons in the traditional Eastern style but also other creative interpretations of sacred images.
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Digital Collections
Saint John’s University, College of Saint Benedict
