Description
This publication tries to capture diverse facets from the sectors which Schirò touched within the culture sector in Malta and abroad.
Custos Divitiarum: Festschrift in Honour of Joseph Schirò, edited by Charles J. Farrugia, is a fitting tribute to Joseph’s legacy and includes over 30 papers in more than 600 pages.
Curator, conservator and restorer of manuscripts and old books, Joseph Schirò is known for his scrupulous attention to detail and skill in restoration, as well as for his culture and knowledge of Maltese history and historiography. His expertise in restoration is universally acknowledged and his opinion is sought by the Government and by the Court. His technical expertise is further supplemented by his knowledge of the most important languages for the purpose.
Contents include:
UGO MIFSUD BONNICI – Custos Divitiarum
MARYANNE SCHIRO – My Husband Joseph
CHARLES J. FARRUGIA – Editorial Reflections
Epistulae Gratulatoriae
PASCAL BRUN – Important moments..
DAVID RODERICK LYON – Appropriate Latin Saying: Res Non Verba (Deeds Not Words),
Tabula Gratulatoria
JOAN ABELA – The Greek Christian captives and renegades of Lepanto and Patras 1603
GIOVANNI BONELLO – Mischievous Books in the Times of the Order: Dealing with heresy, obscenity, sedition, defamation, disinformation and crimes of opinion
MARIO BUHAGIAR – The Virgin of Damascus in the Greek Catholic Church, Valletta. The Shared Veneration of a Miracle-Working Icon
MAROMA CAMILLERI – Hannibal Scicluna’s Vision for a Laboratory for “The Repair and Preservation of Old Manuscripts:” the Visit to the Vatican Laboratories in 1928
SANDRO DEBONO – Sites of Memory as Museums: The Case of Auberge d’Italie in Valletta
NICHOLAS DE PIRO – On the Edge but not Peripheral. A point of view of Maltese taste and identity
ANTONIO ESPINOSA RODRIGUEZ – A Marble Statue of Hercules in Malta
ALBERT GANADO – The rare set of views of Windsor Castle executed in 1827/1828 by the Maltese lithographer William Gauci
LIAM GAUCI – Captain Pietro Lamberti: tattered papers, a final journey and a broken engagement
JAMES LICARI – An enlightened lineage: Schirò predecessors – Successor in salvaging cultural heritage (The Greek Catholic Church of Our lady of Damascus, Valletta)
JOE MAGRI CONTI -Eighteenth century descriptions of Roman baths in the Marsa Area
MARTINA CARUANA – The Illuminated Book of Hours: A case study of the Pigouchet/Vostre incunabulum at the National Library of Malta
JEREMY DEBONO – The Incunabula Collection of the National Library of Malta
JEANINE RIZZO – The Benevento Missal.
THERESA VELLA – A Jewel of a Book: Caoursin’s Account of the 1480 Siege of Rhodes in the National Library of Malta
WILLIAM ZAMMIT – Luigi de Sanctis and Giuseppe Nicola Corvaja. The Publishing Activity of two Radical Risorgimento Exponents in Malta
CLAIRE BONAVIA – The Mahdist Flag and Count Sir Edgar Bernard
CHANELLE BRIFFA & LISA CAMILLERI – The conservation of a nineteenth century choral book
SIMON PATRICK DIMECH – Work in Progress: The Tenth Anniversary from the inauguration of the Conservation Laboratory, National Archives of Malta
MICHAEL FORMOSA – On eighteenth and nineteenth century Sacristy Furniture in the Maltese Islands: materials, techniques and preservation
LINDSAY GALEA – Heritage Malta’s Fototeka – Preserving our Photographic Heritage for future generations
VALENTINA LUPO & MARIA GRAZIA ZENZANI – The Scientific Analysis and Conservation of the Crowned Statue of Maria Bambina found at the Collegiate Basilica dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Senglea
ANTHONY SPAGNOL – An overview of a good working Influencer
THERESA ZAMMIT LUPI – A Thirteenth Century Fragment of a Missal
RITIANNE GAUCI & JOHN SCHEMBRI – The changing face of port geography through cartography: a case-study of Mgarr Harbour (Gozo.)
EVA NOVOTNA – IL PORTO DI MALTA, map by Nicolò Nelli from 1565.431
BERNADINE SCICLUNA – Mapping the States of a Siege
WILLIAM SOLER – Military Architecture and the Cartographic Representation of Malta’s Fortifications 1500-1800
