THE SHOP

oseph and Jesus had a carpenter's shop in Nazareth. Peter and his companions ran a fishing business on the Sea of Galilee. Paul was a tentmaker. Mary, in the Infancy Gospels, did sewing and embroidery while in Egypt, Jesus delivering the goods to her customers there- and so did Dorcas do fine sewing in Luke's Acts. Those of us in Christ's ministry need to earn our keep. The early disciples, both men and women, also wrote epistles, Psalters, Gospels, Bibles. They balanced work and study and prayer. And they did not use credit cards or cheques, instead directly exchanged their work. Churches in East Anglia owe their great beauty to their participants' generosity and identification with them, as Eamon Duffy shows before the The Stripping of the Altars at the Reformation. We encourage the same here in a mutual giving, to the One Body of Christ, everyone.

Similarly monastic communities flourish where they balance work, study and prayer, the body, mind and soul, earning their keep, not living off others' labour. The Egyptian Desert Fathers wove baskets of palm leaves for sale. Ken Lott§ described Trappist monks in Georgia who make grisaille stained glass, having done so first for their own church. I know of another such monastery in New York State which makes 'Monk's Bread', having a bakery, and of contemplative nuns keeping a herd of milk cows, for the hours of bread-baking and milking coincide well with the Hours of Prayer of the Church. The Carmelite Brother Laurence in The Practice of the Presence of God§ described how kitchen work can be God's Presence in prayer. Likewise from the beginning of the Church through these two Millennia, contemplatives have written and produced books, the Beguines often printing and binding also those of others.

In medieval Florence - before the Medici Princes were heard of - Giotto and other artists worked in botteghe, a bottega being a workshop, these artists doing everything, mixing their paints, painting, framing, building. We believe this can also be a model for a library, where books are written, translated, printed, bound, shelved, sold, read, and even their shelves built by the writer scholar librarian like those in the Bodleian. We believe this can be the model for a publishing house, combining bookshop and library, and enabling similar publishing houses' survival by providing free cataloguing on the web. We do so for SISMEL and the Libreria Editrice Fiorentina in Florence and for James Hogg in Salzburg. We believe this can also be the model for running a historical cemetery, treating the tombs as like precious pages of a history book written in marble, needing restoration, translating, reading in order to understand their messages from the past to the future. We believe not in working against each other competively, but in working together cooperatively. We invite you to share in this project in Florence.

If you are in a Third World country or elsewhere, living in simplicity, or if others you know do so, having a computer but lacking a modem and access to the Internet, it is possible to order a CD of the umilta website. It is also the greatest wisdom to not have live television but to use videos of excellent films, especially where there are children growing up in a family. We are happiest as active producers, rather than passive consumers. See our essay on How to Build Libraries and Cradles§. We can ship the rocking cradle to you in a kit all ready to assemble. We have just sent one to Romania, with its rockers taken off, these, the screws and a screwdriver packed inside it, the whole filled with food and clothes, to a Rom family there.

Or we can tell you where in Florence you can buy a Savonarola chair, in via dei Neri, 71, 73, 75 red, in Florence, from G. Cipriani, for just over a hundred euro. (For instance to buy two at 110 euro each and ship them to Los Angeles for a further 145 euro would come to a total of 365 euro.We've just had four of these shipped to Newfoundland in Canada.) These are folding chairs, crafted with curving wood. You take out the back, lift the slats in the middle of the seat and the whole chair folds up and can be placed in a flat box and easily shipped home. You see them grandly in every museum in Florence, in every church in Florence. We have four in our library. Just one of these present in a room spells out the whole Renaissance. Imagine yourself in one of these reading the facsimile of Savonarola's Breviarium (Il Breviario di Frate Girolamo Savonarola. Riproduzione fototipica dell'incunabolo Banco Rari 310 della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Firenze: Galluzzo, SISMEL, 1999. Il Breviario di Frate Girolamo Savonarola. Postille autografe, trascritte e commentate a cure di Armando F. Verde, O.P. Firenze: Galluzzo, SISMEL§, 1999.) Your guests will appreciate your making a small cushion. Fifteen minutes otherwise is the maximum time one can sit in them. Don't put off purchasing them for another year. Cipriani are the only sellers left of these in Florence and are soon retiring from the business. Then there will be none. We are describing a nearly-lost and most beautiful culture.

Alas, Cipriani has gone out of business and tnese are n o longer available. But the cradles and the lilied crosses, now made in copper, are in stock.

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The wooden chairs with lions' heads on the arms are now back in stock. Others have wooden rings on the ends of the arms and are just as intriguing to children and adults. The back is carved on the other side. I prefer the simpler one. The chairs are practical and beautiful.

This space is also open to your cottage industries in textiles and texts.

Our Biblioteca Fioretta Mazzei§'s brackets
made by Bruno in brass, by our Settignano
blacksmith in wrought iron, against our
marbled paper. Each takes an hour's work.
Their shape from the Bodleian Library's
lilied crosses.

Clockwise: book on how to do Florentine embroidery on linen, white on white, gold thread embroidery for a priest's chasuble, green and natural handwoven linen towels from Farfa Sabina, near Rome, like those in the Ghirlandaio Last Supper altarcloths, with designs that go back to Byzantine times. To enlarge, click here . For further information contact holloway.julia@tiscali.it§

WRITING WITH THE NEEDLE:

should like to open this Juliansite to those religious communities needing to sell what they make to support themselves in their lives of prayer, iconographers like Sister Petra Clare§ in the wilds of Scotland who paints icons and makes Orthodox knotted prayer beads, an http://www.iol.ie/~anchorhold/anchoress in Ireland; Father Nathanael Aghiopalamites§ in the United States; the St John' s Cathedral Icon School§ in Pskov in Russia, the e-mail to Philip Davydov§ ; and to lay people, such as the Amish selling mailorder plain clothes, to Shakers still making Shaker artifacts, to Berea College, whose students once earned their way through college while preserving traditional skills and handcrafts, to Foxfire, to all once listed in the Whole Earth Catalogue, to Yorkshire wood carvers, to Italian hand weavers who in Farfa Sabina still make the hand loomed weaving one sees in Ghirlandaio's Last Supper frescoes in Florence and which would be so fine if once again used for altar cloths; to William Morris items still being crafted in England by Arthur Sanderson's & Sons; to Native Americans making 'Eyes of God' and hand-dyed and loomed woven carpets; to Penitentes making bultos and santos, to Native Peoples in Alaska who can send you smoked salmon in hand-crafted wooden boxes; to my third son Jonathan Holloway's widow§ in Tennessee who makes t-shirts, including copies of his own beloved 'Every Person is a Holy Place'; to my first son Richard Holloway§ who is a carpenter in Philadelphia who makes libraries for fine booklovers; to my second son Colin Holloway who for many years lived in a hand-crafted 'Blue Star' teepee and who is a stone-mason.  We used to sell rosaries made by Alice Waithera , UDP, Nairobi, Kenya§, with whom we have lost contact, having only one white, green and wood and horn rosary left.

Alice Waithera's Rosary

Isabelle Prondzynski§ writes from Nairobi, Kenya,

Today (1 February) is St Brigid's Day - a major feast in Ireland, where she is one of the three national patron saints. And my home diocese (Meath) has, for a couple of decades now, been merged with Kildare, her home, where both the Catholic and Anglican Cathedrals are dedicated to her.

Sorry I left you wondering about . . .



Blessed olive leaves from Italy, olive wood bowl
from Kenya, William Morris olive and oak leaves
print. Compare with Birgitta's Bowl

Yes, this bowl came from Kenya, travelled with me to Brussels, rested there while I spent two months in Japan, and then continued to Ireland for Christmas. That is where I packed it into the cardboard from which I had just extracted a wonderful book, padded it with Japanese bubble-wrap, stuffed it with an Irish newspaper, and tied it with the green-and-white string salvaged from an earlier parcel. A little gift of gratitude for those olive leaves and the blessing they brought here.

It was bought, a few weeks earlier, in an open-air market, situated within the access area to a *huge* traffic roundabout (the largest in Africa, with an area the size of a football pitch in its centre - grass and a river winding through it, plus dust during the dry season, and men sitting and chatting when they have no work . . .). Once a week (every Tuesday) only, women (and some men) from up-country towns and villages come to that market, often bearing the produce of their entire local community, and sell beadwork and batiks, baskets and carvings, metalwork and jewellery, paintings and antique spears, and much more. This market is probably the best place in the whole of Kenya to buy genuine crafts, and at reasonable prices.

That is where I found the olivewood bowl that I was looking for, to send to you. As the market takes place on barely reinforced red soil, covered with sacking material to show off the items for sale, it is impossible to find an even place to test anything for its ability to stand without wobbling. Your bowl which, of those tested, wobbled least, produced a much more impressive wobble after I had brought it home . . . but that is all part of the genuineness of the article! Like yourself, I find it all the more beautiful for not being turned, but carved. Filling it with olive leaves seems just right.

It was in Japan, last year, that I made friends with a potter and saw that what would seem to us the simplest and least perfect vessels were the most costly. Gradually, I am growing to understand that it is these very vessels, in their seeming imperfection, that cultivate mindfulness - they lend themselves to touching and feeling. They are so individual, no vessel like any other, and (the potter told me) they also take the most work to make. It is good to extend one's body (and mind) with something so full of connections to others (all those many people who make such a vessel possible - think about it and you will be amazed . . .).

Since you already have Alice Waithera§ 's rosary picture, let's start with Alice. She makes mostly necklaces (and rosaries) from seeds, cow bones, polished wood, glass beads and other traditional materials. She can attach things to these, including crosses, the face of Christ - or traditional carvings - or the wild animals of Kenya! She also makes keyrings with painted slices of cow horns. And (her *greatest* strength) a huge assortment of sisal bags, in different shapes and sizes. Some woven as delicately as crochet work, some fine and delicate for handbags, some strong and sturdy for shopping bags (refuse those plastic pollutants - use sisal!). She uses both traditional and modern dyes and colours. The bags can be finished with sisal or leather straps. I once sold a huge round bag (in Ireland), big enough to hold several days' supplies of firewood!

Julia§ adds: I can assemble kits in Florence for making linen drawn-thread work corporals or gold-thread embroidered chasubles. Nothing is more therapeutic or more fulfilling than such embroidery, using one's needle to praise God, a prayer to each stitch. Indeed, I found when renouncing a personal internal combustion engine, while waiting for shared public transportation, such embroidery calmed me and gave me the means for praising God with all my being. Though I did keep the possession of a personal computer for such ends!

Design for a chasuble based on a Sussex font, such fonts also existing in Sweden.

We help artists in Florence obtain commissions. See the websites we have created for Bruno Vivoli§ and James Rotherham§.

James Rotherham, Detail, Prodigal Son

Godfriends§ are willing to serve as consultants for crafting and weaving Websites for non-profit communities as we did for the UDP in Kenya. We can also give advice on software for hard copy publications of booklets and books. We can advise on library cataloguing, book repair, binding and preservation, and church and other furniture restoration.

Let us know what you would like to see here. The only requirement is that they be beautiful and useful to the soul, the mind, the body (my Mother Foundress saying a sin against beauty is a sin against the Holy Spirit and that beauty is what is simple and useful and made for the love of God and one's neighbour).

SEWING WITH THE PEN:

 should like to open this Juliansite to people such as Brody Neuenschwander who does calligraphy, as in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, who has calligraphed a scroll in Van Eycks' Bruges of Gerald Manley Hopkins' 'Wreck of the Deutschland', and who teaches calligraphy in convents and monasteries. I should like to open this Juliansite to those who want to order in bulk for their convents, their abbeys, their churches and for themselves, the postcards of reproductions of the great Florentine works of art, such as the Simone Martini diptych, the Fra Angelico and Della Robbia scenes which go with the Rosary, the Ghirlandaio and Andrea dal Castagno 'Last Suppers', the Massacio 'Trinity', which I can obtain for you from my Australian neighbour who happens to live here in Montebeni above Florence. Or black and white Alinari photographs for reproduction in scholarly books. Or Florentine book-binding papers. Including marbled papers. I can make the card below into diptychs to keep by your prayer table, your computer.

Simone Martini (? -1344). 'Madonna con il Bambino e Pietà' (diptych).
Museo Horne, Florence, Italy. Copyright Editrice Giusti de Becocci S.R.L., Florence, Italy.

This can be an outlet for those needing contemplative libraries for anchorholds or monasteries. A way of saying how to acquire the Paulist Press books most readily and inexpensively, by becoming a charter subscriber to their Classics of Western Spirituality series: http://www.paulistpress.com§. A way of saying how to order the finely bound and edited Early English Text Society volumes, each stamped in gold with the Alfred Jewel: best to become a Subscribing Member of the Early English Text Society, by writing to the Membership Secretary, Mrs Jane Watkinson, 12 North End, Durham DH1 4NJ (janemwatkinson@hotmail.com§) (annual subscription £15.00/$30): otherwise order those volumes which are over five years old from Boydell and Brewer§, those which are more recent from Oxford University Press. A way of saying how to find Margot King's Peregrina Publishing books: http://www.peregrina.com§ And an outstanding publishing scholar, English, in Austria, who has no computer, no e-mail, but whose list includes major studies on medieval contemplative literature, is Professor James Hogg, of the Analecta Cartusiana, A-5164 Seeham, Fraham 9, Austria, telephone 0043 6217 7084, whose University of Salzburg publications, relating to Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love , include:
 

Augustine Baker:

*Augustine Baker OSB. Alphabet and Order. Ed. John Clark. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 2001. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr Augustine Baker OSB. Holy Wisdom or Direction for the Prayer of Contemplation. Introduction Dom Gerard Sitwell OSB. Wheathampstead: Anthony Clarke Books, 1972.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. St Benedict's Rule. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.24, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2005. 2 vols. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Collections I-III and The Twelve Mortifications of Harphius. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.21, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2004. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Directions for Contemplation. Book D. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.11, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1999. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Directions for Contemplation. Book F. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.12, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1999. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Directions for Contemplation. Book G. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.13, ed. James Hogg. Salzburgu: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2000. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Directions for Contemplation. Book H. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.14, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2000. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Discretion. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.9, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1999.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Doubts and Calls. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.102, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1998. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Five Treatises: The Life and Death of Dame Margaret Gascoigne; Treatise of Confession. Analecta Cartusiana 119.23, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2006. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. A Secure Stay in all Temptations. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.8, ed. James Hogg. Salzburgu: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1999. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Secretum. Introduction and Notes, John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.20, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2003. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Secretum. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.7, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1997. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. A Spiritual Treatise . . . Called A.B.C. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.17, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2001. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Fr. Augustine Baker OSB. Vox Clamantis in Deserto Animae. Ed. John Clark. Analecta Cartusiana 119.22, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2004. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*That Mysterious Man: Essays on Augustine Baker OSB 1575-1641. Ed. Michael Woodward. Introduced Rowan Williams. Analecta Cartusiana 119.15, ed. James Hogg. Salzburgu: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2001. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

Brigittines and Syon Abbey:

*James Hogg. Syon Abbey MS 18: A Looking Glass for the Religious.  Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1992.  James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Studies in St Birgitta and the Brigittine Order. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1993. Analecta Cartusiana 35:19. In series Spiritualität heute und gestern, ed. James Hogg, 1982-1999/AC35.1-43, containing important articles by Roland Maisonneuve, Roger Ellis, John P.H. Clark, Valerie M. Lagorio, Brant Pelphrey, S.S. Hussey, A.V.C. Schmidt, Richard Kieckhefer, Vincent Gillespie, James Hogg, Michael G. Sargent, Rosalynn Voaden, Bridget Morris, Tore Nyberg, F.R. Johnston, Domenico Pezzini, Gunnel Cleve, Neil Beckett, Anne B. Yardley, Ann Hutchinson, Canon John Rory Fletcher, Thomas Robinson, Sister Mary Champney.

*The Rewyll of Seynt Sauioure and A Ladder of Foure Ronges by the which men mowe clyme to Heven. MSS. Cambridge University Library Ff.6.33 and London Guidlhall 25524. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistic Universität Salzburg, 2003. Analecta Cartusiana 183. JBH

*Roger Ellis. Syon Abbey: The Spirituality of the English Bridgettines. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1984. Analecta Cartusiana 68. Ed. James Hogg. The Contemplative Life in Great Britain, Carthusians, Benedictines, Bridgettines 2. JBH

*Richard Whytford. Vol. 2. The Boke of Pacience: The boke of dyuers impedimentes and lettes of perfection, An instructyon to auoyde and eschewe vices and folowe good maners. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1991. Facsimile. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

James Hogg, Andrew Borde, The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge, 1979/AC92.1-2

James Hogg, The Speculum Devotorum of an Anonymous Carthusian of Sheen, 1973-2000/AC11-13, 4 vols.

James Hogg, The Speculum Inclusorum, 1981-1998/ AC1-2

James Hogg, The Architecture of Hinton Charterhouse , 1975/AC25

Carthusians:

Louis M. Salvery. Psychological Themes in the Golden Epistle of William of St Thierry to the Carthusians of Mont Dieu, 1973/ AC8

*Die Kartäuser und ihre Welt - Kontakte und Gegenseitige Einflüsse. Analecta Carthusiana 62:1. Ed. James Hogg. Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Analecta Cartusiana 35:14. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1993. Includes Brian Patrick McGuire, 'Loving the Holy Order: Jean Gerson and the Carthusians'; Laviece Ward, 'Authors and Authority: The Influence of Jean Gerson and the 'Devotio Modern' and the Fasciculus temporum of Wener Rolevinck'.  James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Die Kartäuser und ihre Welt - Kontakte und Gegenseitige Einflüsse. Analecta Carthusiana 62:2. Ed. James Hogg. Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Analecta Cartusiana 35:14. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1993. Includes James Hogg, 'The Carthusian Nuns: A Survey of the Sources of their History'. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Kartäuserliturgie und Kartäuserschrifttum. Internationaler Kongress vom 2. bis 5. September 1987. Vol. 3. Analecta Cartusiana 116:3. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1988. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006. Includes James Hogg, 'Mount Grace Charterhouse'.

Kartauserliturgie und Kartauserschrifttum , ed. James Hogg, 1988-1990/AC116.1-5, 5 vols, on Carthusian women mystics, etc.

*Kartäusermystik und-Mystiker. Ed. James Hogg. Contains Francis Ruello, 'Statut et role de l'Intellectus et de l'Affectus dans la Théologie mystique de Hugues de Balma'; Dom Philippe Dupont, 'L'Ascension mystique chez Guigues du Pont'; Roland Maisonneuve, 'L'Experience mystique et visionnaire de Marguerite d'Oingt (+1310) moniale Chartreuse'; P. Leopold Grill, 'Im blickfeld Ottos von Freising: Reichsburgund und Kartäuser'; Margrit Froh, 'Chorgestohle in ittingen und tockelhausen als zeichen kartäusischer geistigkeit'; Michael Sargent, 'Contemporary Criticism of Richard Rolle'; James Hogg, 'A Mystical Diary: The Refectorium Salutis of Richard Methley of Mount Grace Charterhouse'. Analecta Cartusiana 55:1. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1981. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Kartäusermystik und-Mystiker. Ed. James Hogg. Analecta Cartusiana 55:3. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1982. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Kartäusermystik und-Mystiker. Ed. James Hogg. Analecta Cartusiana 55:4. Includes Michael G. Sargent, 'James Grenehalgh: The Biographical Record'; Giovanni Leoncini, Iconografia della chiesa di San Lorenzo nella Certosa di Firenze'; Caterina Chiarelli, 'Iconografia e iconologia dei busti robbiani nel chiostro della Certosa di Firenze'; Kent Emery, Jr., 'Dionysii Cartusiensis Bibliotheca et Manuscripta: Prologue and Queries'. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1982. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Kartäusermystik und-Mystiker. Ed. James Hogg. Analecta Cartusiana 55:5. Includes James Hogg, 'The Dormitorium Dilicti of Richard Methley of Mount Grace Charterhouse transcribed from the Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.2.56'. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1982. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Analecta Cartusiana 35:1. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1982. Includes Roland Maisonneuve, 'Le langage mystique et son interpretation'; Roger Ellis, 'A Note on the Spirituality of St Bridget of Sweden'; J.P.H. Clark, 'English and Latin in the Scale of Perfection - theological Considerations'. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Analecta Cartusiana 35:2. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1983. Includes Brant Pelphrey, 'Spirituality in Mission: Reflections from the Theology and Life of Julian of Norwich'; S.S. Hussey, 'Editing the Middle English Mystics'. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Analecta Cartusiana 35:14. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1983. Includes James Hogg, 'Carthusian Abstinence'; 'Brigittine Legislation for Syon Abbey Lisbon', 'Carthusian Annals'. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Analecta Cartusiana 35:15. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1992. Includes James Hogg, 'The Carthusians and the Temptations of Eve'. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Analecta Cartusiana 35:17. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1992. Includes E. Vansteenberghe 'Autour de la docte ignorance: Une controversie sur la theologie mystique au XVe siecle'; James Hogg, 'St John Ogilvie: An interim portrait'; James Hogg, 'News in the Charterhouse'.  James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Notitia experimentalis Dei - Erfahrungserkenntnis Gottes: Studien zu Hugo de Balmas Text 'Viae Sion lugent' und deutsche Ubersetzung. Ed. Harald Walach. Analecta Cartusiana 98:1.  Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1994. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Elizabeth Salter. Nicholas Love's 'Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Crist'. Analecta Cartusiana, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1984. JBH

*Collectanea Cartusiensia 3. Analecta Cartusiana 82.3. Ed James Hogg. Includes James Hogg, 'Mount Grace Charterhouse and Late Medieval English Spirituality'.  Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1981. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*La Certosa di Firenze: The Charterhouse of Florence. Analecta Cartusiana 66.  Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1979. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

James Hogg, The Carthusians, St Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, 1998/AC68.1

*Michael G. Sargent, James Grenehalgh as Textual Critic, 1984/AC85. [Includes Amherst Manuscript]

James Hogg and Lawrence F. Powell, Nicholas Love's The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ, 1989-98/AC 91, 3 vols.

*An Illustrated Yorkshire Carthusian Religious Miscellany, British Library London Additional MS 37049. Ed. James Hogg. Vol 3, The Illustrations. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1981. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

Harald Walach, Hugo de Balmas, 1994-1999/ AC98.1-2

Spatmittelalterliche Geistliche Literatur in der Nationalsprache, ed. James Hogg, 1983-84/AC106.1-2, includes essays on Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Robert Thornton, by Ritamary Bradley, Susan Dickman, Marion Glasscoe, Vincent Gillespie, George R. Keiser, Michael G. Sargent

L.E. Whatmore, The Carthusians under Henry VIII , 1983/AC109.1

Cloud of Unknowing:

*The Cloud of Unknowing. The Book of Privy Counselling, The Epistle of Prayer, The Epistle of Discrtetion, Hid Divinity, Benjamin Minor, The Study of Wisdom, Of Discerning of Spirits. Ed. Phyllis Hodgson. Exeter: Catholic Records Press, 1982. Analecta Cartusiana 119.12, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1982. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*The Cloud of Unknowing. An Introduction. John P.H. Clark. 119.5,6, Vols 1,2,3, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1995-1999. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006

*The Cloud of Unknowing. An Introduction. John P.H. Clark. 119.5,6, Vols 1,2,3, ed. James Hogg. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1995-1999. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006

The Latin Versions of the Cloud of Unknowing , ed. John Clark, 1989-1994/AC119. Includes Augustine Baker.

Robert William Englert, Scattering and Oneing: A Study of Conflict in the Works of the Author of the Cloud of Unknowing , 1983/AC105

Walter Hilton:

*Walter Hilton's Latin Writings. Ed. John P.H. Clark and Cheryl Taylor. Vol. 2. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1987. 2 vols. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

*Gunnel Cleve. Basic Mystic Themes in Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection, Book II. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1994. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.

John Clark, Walter Hilton's Latin Writings Translated into English, 1996/AC124.2.

*Elizabeth Salter, Nicholas Love's Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ, 1974/AC10

*Oliver Logan. The Venetian Upper Clergy in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: A Study in Religious Culture. 2 vols. Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Analecta Cartusiana 35:18. Ed. James Hogg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1995. James Hogg, Salzburg, 2006.
 

Etc.
 

Of these only the starred items are in the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei in Florence.

La Bibbia Amiatina/ The Codex Amiatinus. ISBN 88-87027-94-3. CD. SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, Firenze 2000. Manuscripts/ Bible

Alcuin. De Orthographia. Ed. Sandra Bruni. Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 1997. Millennio Medievale 2.  Codicology and Paleography.

La Consolazione della Filosofia nel Medioevo e nel rinascimento italiano/Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Education. Ed. Robert Black and Gabriella Pomaro. Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 2000. Biblioteche e Archivi 7. Manuscripts/ Boethius

Filologia Mediolatina: Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and their Transmission: Rivista della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, VI-VII (1999-2000). Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 2000.

Gian Carlo Garfagnini. "Questa e` la terra tua" Savonarola e Firenze. Millennium Medievale 18. Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 2000. Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 2001. Savonarola

Il Breviario di Frate Girolamo Savonarola. Riproduzione fototipica dell'incunabolo Banco Rari 310 della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Firenze, Galluzzo, SISMEL, 1999. Savonarola

Il Breviario di Frate Girolamo Savonarola. Postille autografe, trascritte e commentate a cure di Armando F. Verde, O.P. Firenze, Galluzzo, SISMEL, 1999. Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola. Verita` della profezia/De veritate prophetica dyalogus. Ed. Claudio Leonardi. Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 1997. Latin and Italian parallel text. Savonarola

Michael M. Gorman. The Manuscript Traditions of the Works of St Augustine. Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 2001. Millennium Medievale 27, Reprints.

Jacopo da Verazza (Jacopo de Voragine). Legenda Aurea. Ed. Giovanni Paolo Maggioni. Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 1999. 2 Vols and CD. Millennio Medievale 6. Premio Tartufari, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1999. Critical edition of Latin text, that comes with searchable CD of same.

John Scottus Eriugena. Glossae Divinae Historiae: The Biblical Glosses. Ed. John J. Contreni and Padraig P. O Neill. Firenze, Galluzzo: SISMEL, 1997. Millennium Medievale 1.

Julian of Norwich. Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation . Ed. Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P., and Julia Bolton Holloway. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001. Biblioteche e Archivi 8.

La Bibbia nell'interpretazione delle donne: Atti del Convegno di Studi del Centro Adelaide Pignatelli (Istituto Universitario "Suor Orsola Benincasa") con la collaborazione della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Napoli, 27-28 maggio 1999. Ed. Claudio Leonardi, Francesco Santi, Adriana Valerio. Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002.

Lino Leonardo, ed. I Canzonieri della lirica italiana delle origine III: Il Canzonierere palatino, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Banco Rari 217, ex Palatino 418. Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2000. Biblioteche e Archivi 6/III. Codicology and Paleography.

I Manoscritti datati della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze. Ed. Teresa De Robertis e Rosanna Miriello. Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1997/1999. 2 Vols. Manoscritti Datati d'Italia 2/3.

Tradizione Patristiche nell'Umanismimo. Ed. Mariarosa Cortesi e Claudio Leonardi. Millennio Medievale 17. Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2000. Patristic Theology

See also the Libreria Editrice Fiorentina§ for contemplative publications, but in Italian.

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The Julian Library Portfolio (specify whether to be bound in vellum or Florentine printed papers or our own Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei marbled papers ort purchased individually):

  Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei Marbled Papers made by a Rom mother who was begging in Florence's streets and whom we taught this Florentine skill so she can support her children, her family in Romania. She is the one who writes out the Lord's Prayer so beautifully in Italian and whom we tried to teach also to read as well as to write. She sings 'Alleluia§' to her baby as a lullaby.
 

Contents/ Essays in Booklets within the Portfolio:

*Augustine, Boethius, Dionysius: Julian's Mystical Philosophers.

*The Most Ancient Life of St Gregory the Great. Written by a Monk or Nun at Whitby, A.D. 713. Reproduction of St Gall Manuscript. Text in Latin and in English Translation.

*Hilda and Caedmon: The Dream of the Rood: The Earliest Poem in English. Reproduction of Runes, Ruthwell Cross. Text in Old English, Modern English Translation.

*The Carmina Gadelica : Gaelic Prayers in the Ortha Nan Gaidheal. Text in Translation from the Gaelic. The Prayer used for the Enclosing of Anchorites in Medieval England was adapted from St Patrick's Lorica. Celtic Intertwine Embroidery Design in Gold on Green for a Chasuble.

*Godfriends: The Continental Medieval Mystics.

*Henry Suso: Horologium Sapientiae. Reproductions of Medieval Manuscript Illuminations. Parallel Text in Middle English Translation from the Amherst Julian Manuscript and in Modern English Translation.

*Jan van Ruusbroec: The Sparkling Stone. Diplomatic Transcription of Amherst Middle English Translation of the Text.

*The Mystics' Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa, and Francesca of Rome.

*Julian of Norwich, The Showing of Love. The Westminster Cathedral/Abbey Manuscript. Excerpts.

*A Julian-Related Manuscript in Norwich Castle. Partial Manuscript Transcription.

*The Soul a City. Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. Diplomatic Manuscript Transcriptions.

*Margaret Gascoigne/Bridget More. Contemplating on Julian. Manuscript Reproduction from St Mary's Abbey, Colwich. Portraits of Julian of Norwich's Benedictine nun/scribes.

*Dame Barbara Constable, O.S.B. and the Upholland Julian Fragment. Manuscript Reproduction from the Stanbrook Abbey Facsimile, Portrait.

*Mother Agnes Mason, Foundress, Community of the Holy Family. Manuscript Reproduction, Portrait.

*Sacred Conversation: Contemplative Art.

*The Lord's Prayer: 'Our Father'. Julian of Norwich, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil. Greek Texts Given.

*Fioretta Mazzei. Blue/Green Thoughts: Pensieri blu o verde raccolti da un assessore per una piu` vasta sicurezza sociale. Parallel Italian Text, English Translation.

Dame Bridget More, O.S.B., Descendant of St Thomas More, Scribe of Julian of Norwich

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Both forms, Portfolio and CD, can encourage their possessors to create libraries of similar materials in turn, as had been the case in the Middle Ages by Julian and the Friends of God and by the Brigittine and Benedictine nuns in exile from England after Julian in the following centuries.

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The Julian Library CD:

The CDs contain a linked library from the Umilta Website of contemplative materials of use to a monastic or eremitic or lay contemplative without the need to surf on line or for the use of scholars. This form will encourage their possessors to create libraries of similar materials in turn, as had been the case in the Middle Ages by Julian and the Friends of God and by the Brigittine and Benedictine nuns in exile from England after Julian in the following centuries.

JULIAN OF NORWICH

SHOWING OF LOVE

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The City and the Book, I, II, III, International Congress, Florence, Proceedings, CD
Contains The City and the Book I: The Alphabet, the Bible; The City and the Book II: The Manuscript, the Miniature, and will contain The City and the Book III: The 'English' Cemetery in Florence. Available both on the web at http://www.florin.ms/aleph.html§, etc., http://www.florin.ms/beth.html§, etc., and http://www.florin.ms/gimel.html§, etc., and with this browsable CD. For a Donation towards the Library.
 
 

THE CITY AND THE BOOK/ LA CITTA' E IL LIBRO I
PROCEEDINGS, THE ALPHABET AND THE BIBLE/ GLI ATTI, L'ALFABETO E LA BIBBIA
FLORENCE, MAY/JUNE 2001/ FIRENZE, MAGGIO/GIUGNO 2001

I. ALPHABET AND BIBLE/ L'ALFABETO E LA BIBBIA : Introduction, prof.ssa Julia Bolton Holloway, Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei (English, italiano) || Fioretta Mazzei and the City, Giannozzo Pucci (English, italiano) || Fioretta Mazzei and the Book, dott.ssa Giovanna Carocci (italiano, English) || The CODEX AMIATINUS: Initiatives of the Laurentian Library, dott.ssa Franca Arduini, Laurentian Library (italiano, English) || The Alphabet: Origins and Diffusion, prof.ssa Maria Giulia Amadasi, Università 'La Sapienza' di Roma (italiano, English) || Some Observations on the Composition of the Bible, Osservazioni sulla composizione della Bibbia, prof.ssa Ida Zatelli, Università di Firenze (italiano, English) || The Hebrew Bible in the First Millennium, prof. Giuliano Tamani, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice (italiano, English) ||
[http://www.florin.ms/aleph.html§]

II. THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE/ LA BIBBIA CRISTIANA : The CODEX SINAITICUS and the CODEX ALEXANDRINUS: A Tale of Four Cities, Dr Scot McKendrick, The British Library (unavailable/non disponibile) || Jerome and His Learned Lady Disciples, prof. Claudio Moreschini, Università di Pisa (italiano, English) || Bishop Wulfila and the CODEX ARGENTEUS, Professor James Marchand, University of Illinois (English, italiano) || Cassiodorus, dott.ssa Luciana Cuppo Csaki, Societas internationalis pro Vivario (italiano, English) || [http://www.florin.ms/aleph2.html§]

III. IRISH PSALTERS AND BIBLES/ SALTERI E BIBBIE IRLANDESI :Irish Psalters and Bibles, The CATHACH, THE BOOK OF KELLS, The Manuscripts, Dr Bernard Meehan, Trinity College Library, Dublin (English, italiano) || Irish Psalters and Bibles, The CATHACH, THE BOOK OF KELLS, The Texts, Professor Martin McNamara, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (English) || The Irish peregrini, Professor Maire Herbert, University of Cork (English, italiano) || [http://www.florin.ms/aleph3.html§]

IV. THE BIBLE IN ENGLAND AND ICELAND/ LA BIBBIA IN INGHILTERRA E ISLANDA : The CODEX AMIATINUS, prof.ssa Lucia Castaldi, S.I.S.M.E.L., Florence (italiano, English) || The Celtic and Scandinavian Loan Words in the LINDISFARNE Glosses, David Moreno, University of Moraga (English, italiano) || The LICHFIELD GOSPELS, Canon Tony Barnard, Lichfield Cathedral (English, italiano) || The Dream of the Rood, Ruthwell/Vercelli, prof. Domenico Pezzini (English, italiano) || Life of St Gregory, A.D. 713, Whitby/ St Gall, Julia Bolton Holloway, Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei (English, italiano) || Fondness for Stories: The Bible in Iceland, Professor Svanhildur Oskarsdottir, Arni Magnusson Institute, Reykjavik (English, italiano) || [http://www.florin.ms/aleph4.html§]

V. THE BIBLE IN RUSSIA, SPAIN, ITALY/ LA BIBBIA IN RUSSIA, SPAGNA E ITALIA : The Gospels in the Byzantine-Slavic World, prof. Marcello Garzaniti, University of Florence (italiano, English) || Alphabet and Bible in Russia, Juliana Dresvina, University of Moscow (English, italiano) || The Apostles' Diaspora and the Relation of the Beatus with Islam, dott.ssa Angela Franco, Museo Arqeològico Nacional, Madrid (Spanish) || Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained: Multiple Texts and Multiple Communities, Professor Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University (English, italiano) || Monastic lectio divina, Padre priore Luigi De Candido, O.S.M., Monte Senario (italiano, English) [http://www.florin.ms/aleph5.html§]
 
 

CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS/ GLI ATTI DEL CONVEGNO
THE CITY AND THE BOOK/ LA CITTA' E IL LIBRO II
THE MANUSCRIPT, THE ILLUMINATION/ IL MANOSCRITTO, LA MINIATURE
FLORENCE, SEPTEMBER 2002/ FIRENZE, SEPTEMBER 2002

I. THE MANUSCRIPT, THE ILLUMINATION/ IL MANOSCRITTO, LA MINIATURA: Omaggio a Fioretta Mazzei/ Homage to Fioretta Mazzei di Giannozzo Pucci, Presidente Associazione Fioretta Mazzei || Presiede: prof. Francesco Adorno, Ente Cassa di Risparmio, Presidente Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Presidente Accademia Colombaria || Introduzione: Julia Bolton Holloway, Direttrice Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei (English, italiano) || Egeria, Itinerarium, prof. Pasquale Smiraglia, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma || Uno manoscritto sefardita a Firenze, prof.ssa Ida Zatelli, Università di Firenze (italiano, English) [http://www.florin.ms/beth.html§]

II. FLORENCE AND SPAIN/ FIRENZE E SPAGNA
Tavola Rotonda I: Beatus, Apocalypse, Alfonso el Sabio, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria , dott.ssa Angela Franco, Museo Arqeològico Nacional, Madrid (Spanish); Nhora Lucia Serrano, University of Wisconsin-Madison (English) || Tavola Rotonda II: Brunetto Latino, Il Libro di Montaperti e Il Tesoretto, dott. Renato Stopani, Firenze (italiano, English); prof.ssa Diana Modesto, University of Sydney, Australia (forthcoming) || I Laudari fiorentini, prof. Ursula Betka, University of Melbourne, Australia (English, italiano) || Appendici: The Codicology of the Las Cantigas de Santa Maria Banco Rari 20 Manuscript, Deirdre Jackson, Courtauld Institute, England (forthcoming) || Brunetto in the Tesoretto, Elisabetta Sayiner, University of Pennsylvania (English) || Visualizing Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto in Early Trecento Florence, prof.ssa Catherine Harding, University of Vancouver, Canada (English) || Julia Bolton Holloway, Diplomacy and Literature: Alfonso el Sabio's Influence on Brunetto Latino, 'Maestro di Dante Alighieri' (English) || Behind the Arras: Pier delle Vigne, Alfonso el Sabio, Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri (English) [http://www.florin.ms/beth2.html§]

III. DANTE INTERTWINED/ DANTE INTRECCIATO
L'Aldilà celtico e la Commedia , prof.ssa Màire Herbert, University College of Cork (English) || Dante e Oderisi: L'umiltà dell'arte, l'umiltà della parola, dott. Vittorio Montemaggi, Robinson College, University of Cambridge (italiano, English) || Il Libro della Scala, Dante Alighieri, La Commedia, e Immanuello Romano, L'Inferno e il Paradiso , dott. Giorgio Battistoni, Verona (italiano) [http://www.florin.ms/beth3.html§]

IV. WOMEN CONTEMPLATIVES/ LE DONNE CONTEMPLATIVE
Umiltà da Faenza, Sermones, e la Firenze, dott.ssa Adele Simonetti, S.I.S.M.E.L., Roma (italiano, English) || Margherita Porete, Lo Specchio delle anime semplici, prof.ssa Giovanna Fozzer, Firenze (italiano, English) || Brigida di Svezia, Le Rivelazioni e Firenze, prof. Tore Nyberg, Università di Odense, Danimarca (English) || Giuliana di Norwich, Rivelazioni, e Margery Kempe e il suo Libro , Juliana Dresvina, Università di Mosca, Russia (English) || Appendici: Brigida di Svezia, O.SS.S., e Chiara Gambacorta, O.P., prof.ssa Anne M. Roberts (English) || A Paradiso Document in the Florentine Archives, Written at Vadstena, 1397, Birger Bergh, Daniela De Rosa, Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams, Monica Hedlund, Boyd Hill, Julia Bolton Holloway (English, italiano) || Ser Lapo Mazzei Writes to Messer Francesco Datini about Birgitta of Sweden, Iris Origo (English) || The Soul a City: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe of Lynn, Julia Bolton Holloway (English) [http://www.florin.ms/beth4.html§]
 

V. THE GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT/ IL MANOSCRITTO GOTICO E RINASCIMENTALE
La Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, prof.ssa Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Firenze (italiano, English) || Tavola Rotonda III : Brunetto Latino, Li Livres dou Tresor e il Tesoro, Dante, La Commedia : prof.ssa Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh ; prof.ssa Brigitte Roux, Université de Genève (italiano, français, English); prof.ssa Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré, Università di Firenze (forthcoming) || Appendici: Female City Builders: Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias and Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames, prof.ssa Christine McWebb, University of Alberta, Canada (English) || Le Des Cas des Noble Hommes et Femmes de Bocace, prof.ssa Cécile Quentel Touche, Université de Rennes (français, English) || Dante Alighieri e Christine de Pizan, prof.ssa Ester Zago, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. (English) [http://www.florin.ms/beth5.html§]

VI. THE CITY, ITS LIBRARIES AND ITS MONUMENTS|| [http://www.florin.ms/beth6.html§] Appendix: Calligraphy§, Gold-Leafing Workshop
 
 

GLI ATTI DEL CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS LA CITTA` E IL LIBRO III/ THE CITY AND THE BOOK III
ELOQUENZA SILENZIOSA: VOCI DEL RICORDO INCISE NEL CIMITERO 'DEGLI INGLESI', GABINETTO VIEUSSEUX, PALAZZO STROZZI/ 'MARBLE SILENCE, WORDS ON STONE: FLORENCE'S 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY, GABINETTO VIEUSSEUX. PALAZZO STROZZI, AND 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY, FLORENCE, 3-5 GIUGNO 2004/ 3-5 JUNE, 2004

INTRODUZIONE/ INTRODUCTION

L’internazionalità di Firenze: il ricordo di Vieusseux nel Cimitero detto ‘degli Inglesi’/ Cosmopolitan Florence: Vieusseux's Memorial in the ‘English' Cemetery Maurizio Bossi, Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux, Firenze ||'Tuoni di bianco silenzio': Il Cimitero ‘degli Inglesi’ come biblioteca e come archivio/ 'Thunders of White Silence': The ‘English Cemetery’ as Library, as Archive Julia Bolton Holloway, Aureo Anello Associazione Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei e Amici del Cimitero 'degli Inglesi' [http://www.florin.ms/gimela.html§]

I CIMITERI DI FIRENZE E LA TRASMISSIONE DEL RICORDO NELL’OTTOCENTO/ THE TRADITION OF MEMORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE

Il bello sepolcrale/ The aesthetic of tombs, Carlo Sisi, Galleria d'Arte moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Firenze || Vivere con la morte: iscrizioni funebri e monumenti in Toscana/ Living with Death: Tuscan Entombments in the Nineteenth-Century, Anne O’Brien, National University of Ireland, Galway || La letteratura del ricordo/ The Literature of Memory, Laura Melosi, Università di Macerata || Memoria come benedizione: il Cimitero Ebraico a Firenze/ Memory as Blessing: Florence’s Jewish Cemetery, Dora Liscia Bemporad, Università di Firenze|| Architetture dei cimiteri 'degli Inglesi' e 'agli Allori'/ Architecture of the 'English' and 'Agli Allori' Cemeteries, Giampaolo Trotta [http://www.florin.ms/gimelb.html§]
 

I ‘FIORENTINI’ INGLESI E AMERICANI/ ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ‘FLORENTINES’

La tentazione di Eva: 'Paradise Lost' nella scultura di Hiram Powers/ Eve Tempted: 'Paradise Lost' in Hiram Powers' sculpture Katerine Gaja, The British Institute of Florence ||L’iscrizione sulla tomba di Walter Savage Landor/ The inscription on Walter Savage Landor's Tomb Mark Roberts, The British Institute of Florence ||La vedova di Arnold Savage Landor: Libri, corpi e l'incisione di memoria in Firenze/ Arnold Savage Landor’s Widow: Books, Bodies and Imprinting Memory in Florence Allison Levy, Wheaton College||Fanny Trollope, la sua famiglia e la cerchia del Villino Trollope/ Fanny Trollope, her Family and Circle at the Villino Trollope David R. Gilbert, The Middle Temple, London
||Elizabeth Barrett Browning e la Bibbia/ Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Bible Stephen Prickett, The Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University ||La pietra e la parola: Elizabeth Barrett Browning a Firenze/ Stone and Word: Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence Claudia Vitale [http://www.florin.ms/gimelc.html§]
 

Una tomba dal nome svanito: Isa Blagden/ A Faded Inscription: Isa Blagden’s Tomb Corinna Gestri, La Nara di Prato [disponibile soltanto in lingua italiana all'indirizzo http://www.florin.ms/gimel1.html#gestri]||Clough, Horner, Zileri: tombe ricordate in un diario inglese inedito/ Tombs Linked in an Unpublished Diary Alyson Price, The British Institute of Florence||William Holman Hunt per la moglie giovane Fanny/ William Holman Hunt for His Young Wife Fanny Patricia O’Connor, The Pre-Raphaelite Society ||L'arte della memoria: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope e la tomba della figlia Mary/ The Art of Memory: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and the Tomb of His Daughter Mary Nic Peeters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel– Judy Oberhausen, San Mateo, California||Notti bianche d'Islanda a Firenze: William Morris e Daniel Willard Fiske/ Northern Lights in Florence: William Morris and Daniel William Fiske Kristín Bragadóttir, The National Library, Reykjavik ||Marmo bianco: la vita e le lettere di Hiram Powers, un inedito di Clara Louise Dentler/ White Marble: The Life and Letters of Hiram Powers in Clara Louise’s Dentler’s Manuscript Jeffrey Begeal, The International Baccalaureate Organization [http://www.florin.ms/gimeld.html§]
 

ALLA RICERCA DI ‘FIORENTINI’ DI ALTRE CULTURE NEL CIMITERO ‘DEGLI INGLESI'/ OTHER 'FLORENTINES' IN THE 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY

Religione, nazione, affari: Il patrimonio della memoria nella comunità svizzera di Firenze/ Religion, Nation, Commerce: Memory as Heritage Among the Swiss in Florence Alessandro Volpi, Università di Pisa || 'Sotto i mirti della dolce Italia': I russi/ 'Beneath the myrtles of sweet Italy': The Russians Michail Talalay, Russian Academy of Sciences || Da Mosca a Firenze: i Kudrjavcev e l’Italia/ From Moscow to Florence: The Kudriavcev and Italy Lucia Tonini, Università 'l'Orientale', Napoli || Le ragioni di una assenza, i motivi di una presenza: Polacchi e Ungheresi nel Cimitero 'degli Inglesi'/ Reasons for absence, motives for their presence: Poles and Hungarians in the 'English Cemetery' Luca Bernardini, Università di Milano || Gli Europei del Nord: dall'Olanda, dalla Scandinavia e dai Paesi baltici/ Northern Europeans: Holland, Scandinavia and the Baltic Countries Asker Pelgrom, Rijkuniversiteit Groningen, Olanda || Due sepolture al Cimitero ‘degli Inglesi’: una traccia per l’attività fiorentina di Félicie de Fauveau/ Two Tombs in the ‘English’ Cemetery: Vestiges of Felicie de Fauveau’s work in Florence Silvia Mascalchi, Istituto Statale d'Arte di Firenze || Robert Davidsohn, un autore della memoria storica di Firenze/ Robert Davidsohn, Historian of Medieval Florence Giuliano Pinto, Università di Firenze. Appendix: Poets' Epitaphs in the 'English' Cemetery [http://www.florin.ms/gimele.html§]
 

MAPS AND TIME LINE
 

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The 'English Cemetery', Florence, CD
Contains complete listing with images of the register of the tombs in the historic English Cemetery, Florence, 1827-1877, and also gives the register of the tombs in the Cimitero agli Allori, 1877-2003.
For a Donation towards the Cemetery.
 
 

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Latest CD:

Florence in Sepia
 
 

Concentrating on Florence, this CD contains e-books, such as Augustus J.C. Hare's Florence, Susan and Joanna Horner's Walks in Florence, an album of nineteenth-century photographs of Italy purchased by the Mother Foundress of the Community of the Holy Family, illustrative materials on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, etc. It is a useful guide for scholars of medieval, Renaissance and Victorian Florence and for tourists to modern Florence.
 

© Julia Bolton Holloway§, Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei, 2004.

Suggested Price/CD: $25.00 including surface postage.

To order send e-mail or write to
Julia Bolton Holloway, Director
Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei
Piazzale Donatello 38
50132 FIRENZE
ITALY
 

While the books of mystic theology in Italian written by don Divo Barsotti, C.F.D., 'Ascolta o figlio', Nello Spirito Santo, La fede nell'amore, Itinerario dell'anima a Dio, Pensieri per ogni giorno, La legge e` l'amore, Trinita` vissuta, Poesie, Verso la visione , Women in the Gospel, etc., may be ordered from the Fondazione Divo Barsotti, http://www.figlididio.it/com/libri.html

A way of ordering Julia Bolton Holloway§'s books:
 

Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation, ed. Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. and Julia Bolton Holloway (ISBN  88-8450-095-8) from University of Florence, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, galluzzo@sismel.it§

Brunetto Latini: An Analytic Bibliography (ISBN 0-7293-0216-4) from  http://www.boydell.co.uk§; and
from Julia Bolton Holloway, holloway.julia@tiscali.it§(5 copies)

The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland and Chaucer (ISBN 0-8204-2090-5);  available from Julia Bolton Holloway, holloway.julia@tiscali.it§



Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri (ISBN 0-8204-1954-0), available from Julia Bolton Holloway, holloway.julia@tiscali.it§



Jerusalem: Essays in Pilgrimage and Literature (ISBN 0-404-64164-4) from AMS Press, Brooklyn Naval Yard, Bldg 292, Suite 417, 63 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205, U.S.A. amserve@earthlink.net§



Tales within Tales: Apuleius through Time, ed. Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway, also from AMS Press, Brooklyn Naval Yard, Bldg 292, Suite 417, 63 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205, U.S.A.  amserve@earthlink.net; or from Julia Bolton Holloway, holloway.julia@tiscali.it§(2 copies)



Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems (ISBN 0-14-043412-7) from: http://www.penguinclassics.com§;



Birger Gregersson and Thomas Gascoigne, The Life of Saint Birgitta (ISBN 0-920669-17-4) from Peregrina Publishing Co, Toronto, Canada, http://www.peregrina.com§;

Saint Bride and Her Book: Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations (ISBN 0-941051-18-8) from: Boydell and Brewer, Cambridge, England, http://www.boydell.co.uk§;

Eileen Mary Bolton, Lichens for Vegetable Dyeing, ed. Karen Leigh Casselman and Julia Bolton Holloway (ISBN 1-56659-001-9); from Julia Bolton Holloway, holloway.julia@tiscali.it§ (2 copies):

I should like to open this Shop (holloway.julia@tiscali.it§), also, to those who want to order the Julian Library Portfolios , giving the starred * titles in the Julian of Norwich Website and the Mirror of Saints Website , and which are crammed full with booklets of many of the essays on the Website, but in the Hebrew and Greek and Old English and Middle English the Internet cannot manage, and also with the coloured reproductions I cannot afford to place on the Internet. A Portfolio costs $50.00 plus postage to make, which includes the postage, and which are hand-bound in Florentine hand-marbled paper. Or you may order individual booklets. If a web essay is unstarred and you would like one or several booklets made of it, ask me (holloway.julia@tiscali.it§). We are a cottage publishing company on demand, as were the medieval beguines. What profits that might ensue will be used to purchase more books for our library on Florence, theology and women, the Biblioteca Fioretta Mazzei.

Again, we would be willing to serve freely, crafting and weaving Websites for non-profit communities, as we have for Nairobi's Urban Development Programme§, and we can also give advice on software for hard copy publications of booklets and books. We can advise on library cataloguing, book repair, binding and preservation, and church and other furniture restoration. It is my hope to buy the most simple equipment, saws and mitre boxes, and teach refugees without skills and without work how to do picture framing, giving both the tools and their work to them, to sell the latter to tourists, so doing teaching both refugees and tourists Florentine art. It is said the half the world's great art is in Italy, and half of that again here in this one small city. One buys gold leaf here, in books, in hardware/ironmonger stores!

Our Shop exists to support our enabling the bettering of human souls, minds and bodies, to becoming a community, a school for prayer , a centre for theological study. And especially we seek advice (Ephphatha!) on how to create a business for dispensing hearing aids at minimal cost to the hearing-impaired run by the hearing-impaired.
 

See also:

Bruno Vivoli, Florentine Prints and Engravings§
We can print these engravings. A numbered, signed, framed print sells for $100/€100. Without frame, €50/$50. Our latest Bruno Vivoli engraving is of Julian of Norwich.

Julian of Norwich Icons
These are in several sizes, a free and not very good version of the above icon, hand-painted on wood, in red, gold, black, white, carried out in prayer. Donation. Specify large, medium, small. Send mailing address.
 

We have helped the Urban Development Project of All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi, Kenya with selling rosaries made by women raising families in slums. These may be purchased from Julia Bolton Holloway§, the entire proceeds going to the women involved.  We have one rosary left from this project, its colours being green and white beads, interspersed with ones in wood, the cross in horn.
 

Alice Waithera's Rosary
 

To order rocking cradles, hand-wrought-iron lilied-cross shelf joins, marbled paper, etc., from Julia Bolton Holloway§, illustrated and described in How to Build Cradles and Libraries§, and handmade colourful rosaries from Nairobi, Africa, illustrated and described in Portfolio§.
 

_Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei Marbled Papers made by a Rom mother who was begging in Florence's streets whom we have taught so she can support her children, her family in Romania. She is the one who writes out the Lord's Prayer so beautifully in Italian and whom we tried to teach also to read as well as to write.

Donations for above CDs and Portfolios benefit the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei§ (of which you become a member through the gift to the library of a book), and the historic "English Cemetery§ ", Piazzale Donatello 38, I-50132 Florence, Italy

Julia Bolton Holloway
holloway.julia@tiscali.it§

'Christ girded himself with the towel of our humanity to minister to that which was sick'.  Cyril of Jerusalem
 

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