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The Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library: The Mating of Medieval Knowledge with Modern Technology

The Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library (MMML) "project is [engaged in] the extensive microfilming of manuscripts kept in Benedictine monasteries of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. This program, sponsored by the Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation, is still in progress, and the film is housed in the St. John's Monastic Microfilm Library in Collegeville, Minnesota." Readers of Microform Review may be interested in the origin and details of the progress of this project which epitomizes the mating of medieval knowledge with modern technology and whose results are easily accessible in our own country. The primary purpose of the MMML is the preservation and transmission of Western cultural heritage. The intellectual and scientific progress of the human race has been a series of small steps, each built on the advances of earlier generations. Throughout his history, man has sought to expand the boundaries of his knowledge and expression, using the findings and conclusions of his predecessors. In this human progression, the written word has been of utmost significance, making available to thinkers of each era those documents expressing the intellectual accomplishments of earlier ages. Without the transmission of literature from generation to generation, man's