Library: Researching the Order history
The Order library is a specialist reference library, containing
primary and secondary sources (books, pamphlets and manuscripts) on
three main subject areas:
- The Hospitallers;
- The Templars;
- The Most Venerable Order of St John.
When booking a library appointment, staff will discuss with you
the extent of material in the library relevant to your research.
The main categories are listed below.
- Archaeology
- Arms & armour
- Art & Architecture
- Biographies
- Cartularies
- Ceremonies
- Clerkenwell Priory of St John
- St John’s church
- St John’s Gate
- Museum & library
- Coins & medals
- Commanderies
- Corsairs
- Costumes and uniforms
- Crusades
- Crusader castles
- Cyprus
- Eastern Mediterranean
- Grand Masters
- Grand Priors
- Heraldry & genealogy
- Holy Land
- Jerusalem
- Acre
- Hospitals and medical work
- Knights
- Literature
- Liturgy
- Malta
- Almanacs and periodical
- Antiques
- Art and architecture
- British rule
- Church
- Descriptions
- Finance, currency and coinage
- Fortifications
- Gozo
- Health, sanitation and drainage
- History
- Language
- Literature
- Liturgy
- St Paul’s Shipwreck
- Sieges
- University
- World War II
- Maps
- Masonry
- Medals and Insignia
- Medicine
- Military
- Monastic houses
- Music
- Navy
North Africa
- Officials
- Ophthalmic Hospital (now known as the St John Eye
Hospital)
- Orders of chivalry
- Orders of St John
- Alliance
- Johanniter
- The Netherlands
- Most Venerable Order - countries
- SMOM.
- Unrecognised orders
- Ottoman empire
- Papacy
- Periodicals
- Philately
- Pilgrimages
- Privileges
- Religious works
- Rhodes
- Sieges
- Rolls
- Round churches
- Rules
- Sacred relics
- St John Almoner
- St John the Baptist
- Seals
- Sisters of the Order
- Statutes and regulations
- Templars
- Topography and travel.