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The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org

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Statistics from FY2026 (July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026):

103,051 manuscripts and artworks cataloged and searchable in HMML Reading Room and Museum (vhmml.org).

2,497 name authorities for persons, organizations, works, places, and families created and added to HMML Authority File (haf.vhmml.org).

Statistics from FY2026 (July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026): 103,051 manuscripts and artworks cataloged and searchable in HMML Reading Room and Museum (vhmml.org). 2,497 name authorities for persons, organizations, works, places, and families created and added to HMML Authority File (haf.vhmml.org). 636 name authorities from HMML Authority File contributed directly to the Library of Congress. 14 catalogers and curators (full-time, part-time, and contractors) worked to make HMML’s collections accessible worldwide.
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In the very bottom margin of two pages, in manuscript CFMM 00312, an anonymous person left an intriguing note. This note became the start of a investigative journey for Dr. Vevian Zaki.

Join Vevian as she follows this manuscript's travels from Egypt to Turkey: https://bit.ly/3j8Ne2g

A manuscript in the collection of the Church of the Forty Martyrs in Mardin, Turkey. View each page in HMML Reading Room (CFMM 00312): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/503662
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Statistics from FY2026 (July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026): 916,018 primary digital images created by HMML partners worldwide, representing 5,534 manuscripts & art objects (38.9 terabytes of data). 1,000,172 primary digital images created by the scanning of microfilms at HMML in Collegeville, MN.

Statistics from FY2026 (July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026): * 916,018 primary digital images created by HMML preservation partners worldwide, representing 5,534 manuscripts and art objects (38.9 terabytes of data). * 1,000,172 primary digital images created by the scanning of microfilms at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. * 50 rare books in HMML’s Special Collections photographed and made available online (vhmml.org). * 13,000+ manuscripts added to the Reading Room image server.
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Of the more than 70 repositories in Austria where HMML worked between 1965 and 1973, last year Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman visited staff at 25 libraries—in a quest to gather information about these foundational projects and to seek ways of furthering collaboration.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3TvdM2e

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A palm-leaf manuscript of Naḷacarita āṭṭakkatha, a famous Kathakaḷi play by Kerala author Uṇṇāyivāriyar about the love story of Nala and Damayantī.

This Malayalam copy was made in 1913 CE and is located at the Vaṭakke Maṭham Brahmasvam in Thrissur, India (DKA 013 00001): https://bit.ly/4yiY35w

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HMML fellowships are a great opportunity to spend time using the collections in a beautiful facility at a beautiful monastery! You get access to a great manuscript reference collection as well as all the microfilmed and digitized resources. And nice people! Application deadline is October 15th.

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🧵 (3/5) In 2022, the project was extended to digitize the collection of Eyes on Heritage, a library of manuscripts, documents, and rare books collected in the Gaza Strip by the historian Dr. Abdul-Latif Abu Hashem. 36 of these manuscripts are cataloged and viewable in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org).

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🧵 (2/5) In February 2020, digitization of the manuscript library of the Great Omari Mosque began through a partnership between the library, HMML, and the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library. These manuscripts are cataloged and viewable in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org).

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