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Appeals from Sentences issued by the local Ecclesiastical Courts or the Office of the Bulla Sanctissimae Crociatae to either the Metropolitan See in Palermo or the Holy See in Rome.

The full name of this tribunal is Officium pro Alienatione Bonorum Sacri Hyerosolimitani Ordinis ad M(agnum) Magistrum eiusque Auditores per Rescripta Congrgat(ionis) Aepiscop(orum) et Regul(arium) iterum Commissum.

The Officium Bullae Sanctissimae Crocitatae fonds (OBC) contains records on the administration of the Bull of Crusade (Bolla della Crociata) managed by the prior of the Conventual Church of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and Malta. The Bolla della Crociata conferred a large number of privileges to those who benefited from it, ranging from soldiers who participated in the struggle for the defence or expansion of Christianity, or those who supported such efforts financially, with the Bulla being valid for a set period before requiring renewal. A specific office was set up in Valletta in the area of the Auberge de Castille (actual location unspecified) to administer the granting of the Bulla, manage the financial aspect of the program and raise the funds required for the renewal of the Order's licence every six years.

Bibliography:

• Fra Nazju Tema, 1750 publication on the importance of the Bulla, copy held at the Biblioteca.
• https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/54236
• https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/54297"

The Commerce Department consists of the Support Services Unit, the Small Business and Crafts Unit and two directorates: the Industrial Property Registrations Directorate; the Trade Related Services and Projects Directorate. For each unit or directorate a Subfond was created to include every record which falls under it. In addition, another Subfond was created, entitled 'Legacy Regards' which pertains to records which the Commerce Department inherited from other government departments which have been dissolved. One category of files which was transferred from the Commerce Department to NAM were the files which used to belong to the Department of Trade, hence a Sub Subfond was created for these records.

At present, in this Fond one will find records pertaining to the Industrial Property Registrations Directorate (Subfonds 01): Patents (Series 01) and Designs (Series 02); and Legacy Records (Subfonds 02): Department of Trade files (Sub Subfonds 01) which were inherited by the Commerce Department.

The Guljana Masini – consisting of 88 manuscript volumes of various sizes – enlists all the births, marriages, and deaths that took place in Gozo between 1554 and 1934. It also registers the births of Gozitans in Malta and, sometimes, even abroad. The sources for the information are the parish records. It was in 1554 that the Matrice or mother-church of Gozo started keeping such records.

Three additional values of the collection are: first, a considerable number of family trees that Notary Attard compiled to clients; secondly, many references to contracts, donations, and other issues related to land property owned by his clients; and references to such properties by their original toponym

The Guljana Letard-Ciantar contains data retrieved from Church Archives, scattered across the Maltese Islands, regarding baptisms, marriages and deaths. This collection also contains copies of notarial deeds, benefits, legacies, wills and concessions on titles of Maltese and Gozitan nobility.

The Public Memory Archive contains oral history interviews; fieldwork notes; photographs and ephemera relating to different themes concerning 20th-century Maltese history. Carried out by students and researchers at the University of Malta, the material corresponds with the following themes: women's memories of childbirth; natural and herbal medicine; health and hygiene; reminiscences of the fisherfolk’s survival at sea; recollections of a generation of “factory girls”; nursing and caring at home and in the neighbourhood; survival strategies of the labouring poor; provisions and care of the body; shelter, nutrition and survival during war. The team assigned to the MEMORJA project, at the National Archives of Malta, is responsible for the conversion of this material from analogue to digital format. This is for long-term preservation and access, which involves recording appropriate descriptive, structural and administrative (including technical) metadata.

The collection covers the period from the 1890s onwards following the advent of photography in Malta. Most of the records consist of photographic prints, some mounted on cardboard. In few cases the archive holds glass plates, negatives, or slides.

This Fonds contains several Series of records that channeled through all departmental, consular, ecclesiastical, and individual correspondence, and all naval and military correspondence concerning civil matters.

In this Fonds, one may also find: Bills of health, personal passports, and certificates of competency to master mariners, mates and padroni. Acts of naturalization and letters patent of denization to aliens. Warrants to act as advocate, notary, physician, broker, land surveyor, etc. Licenses to deal in marine stores, to act as auctioneer, to keep schools, to exercise the art of goldsmith, etc.

The Chief Secretary’s office also kept records of licenses granted by the Governor, for marriages performed in non-Catholic churches. After the 1921 Constitution all work dealing with purely local matters was taken over by the Maltese Government. The Maltese Imperial government dealt only with ‘matters reserved to the Crown’.

A collection of records of the Comitato Permanente Universitario, including minutes of meetings and correspondence. The collection includes a sizeable collection of publications related to the operations of the University of Malta from the late 18th century.

Several Private Deposits by George Azzopardi. Some of these accessions are at the Central Archive while other are at the Gozo Archive.

A Guljana made up of 31 volumes (volume 23 is missing) which includes indexes, family trees and information about guspatronati of persons baptised in Malta.

Transparencies used in the publication 'The Siege of Malta 1565'.