SHIN,
ש The Swiss Archives of the 'English' Cemetery
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'English' Cemetery, upstairs in Swiss archive room TAU='English'
Cemetery || Cemeteries || Books by Persons Buried Here || City and Book Conferences
on the English Cemetery || Gardens, in Office
THE SWISS ARCHIVES
OF THE
'ENGLISH' CEMETERY
1827-1877
Burial
Registers
19/1/1828-28/1/1844 'Registre des
Morts ensevelis/ Dans/ Le Cimetierre de l'Eglise/
Evangelique-Reformée de Florence/ De 1828 à fin
1843/ (Tous renviront par Jésus Christ)'. Thick damaged paper
cover, now conserved within marbled paper cover. Archivio:
'REGISTRI/ ANAGRAFI/ IX A5/1'Diplomatically transcribed.
1844-1871
On blue leather spine, 'Registre des Morts', with
green marbled paper covers. Frontispiece printed
'EGLISE ÉVANGELIQUE REFORMÉE/ DE FLORENCE/ - /
RÉGISTRE DES MORTS/ - (printed)/ N° 1./ 1844 à la fin de
1871/ Heureuz ceux qui meurent au Seigneur, oui,
pour certain, dit/ l'Esprit, car ils se reposent de
leurs traveaux et leurs oeuvre les suivent/ Apoc.
XIV.13 (handwritten).
Burial Register, printed and handwritten in French.
These give the name of the deceased, his/her
profession, his/her Canton, his/her father's name and
hi/her mother's maiden name, thus enabling female
genealogical research as well as male. Their
information is entered into the Belle Arti schedatura of the
tombs by sectors. Archivio:
'REGISTRI/ ANAGRAFI/ IX A5/2'
1872-1875
Brown-red-black marbled paper covers, vellum spine
'Registres/des/Morts/-/II'. Frontispiece, 'EGLISE
ÉVANGELIQUE REFORMÉE/ DE FLORENCE (printed) N° 2
(hand-written)/ RÉGISTRE DES MORTS (printed)/ De 1872 à 1875/ Heureuz ceux qui meurent
au Seigneur, oui, pour certain, dit/ l'Esprit, car
ils se reposent de leurs traveaux et leurs oeuvre
les suivent/ Apoc. XIV.13/ -' (handwritten).
Burial Register, printed and handwritten in French. These give the name
of the deceased, profession, Canton, father's name and
mother's maiden name, thus enabling female
genealogical research as well as male. Their information is
entered into the Belle Arti schedatura of the tombs by sectors.
Archivio: 'REGISTRI/ ANAGRAFI/ IX A5/3'
The Register for the years 1875-1877 is lost, perhaps
in the 1966 Flood.
Burial Account
Registers
1/5/1829-1868
'Comptes courantes/ - / 1834', on diamond shaped
label on white paper, ornamental edge, hand-written below
printed, cancelled with green flourishes 'Caise du Cimitiere'.
Brown-gold marbled paper covers
1829-12/1851
'QUARDERNO/ d'Entrata e Uscita/ per la Tumulazione dei/
Cadaveri nel Cimitero dei/ Protestanti fuori la Porta a/ Pinti/
Firenze'
(handwritten on label printed with skull and two
mourning figures flanking a tomb, pasted on black cover). Burial
accounts
in Italian.
1852-1877
'Comptes cimitieres/ 1852-1877'.
Brown-red marbled paper covers, hand-written white label
bordered with four blue bands in descending widths. Burial
accounts in French.
The more complete Burial Account Registers
3/3/1852-12/7/1859 'Registre/ des
Sepultures/ avec detail des frais/ du Cimitiere des
Protestants/ situé/ hors la Porta Pinti/ Florence'.
Handwritten on label shaped like a tomb. Black cover
damaged in 1966 Flood, pages handwritten generally in
French giving complete careful accounting of costs for
burials. Burial accounts in French.
16/7/1859-22/6/1865 'Registres
des Sepultures' (blind-stamped on black leather, 1966
flood-damaged cover). Pages handwritten in
French giving complete careful accounting of costs for
burials.
10/9/1863-21/5/1864
'Scartafoglia, N°. 1/ - /Commencé le 10 Septembre 1863' (hand-written).
Thick white paper covers. Burial acounts in French.
12/8/1864-29/1/1869
'Premieres Notes/ des
Inscriptions des Sepultures/ aux Cimitieres Evangelique
Réformé/ Commencé le 12 Aout au 19 7bre 1864/ Interrompu dès
cette derniere date/ e recommencé le 1r Mars 1865'
(hand-written). Thick white paper covers. Burial
accounts in French.
22/12/1867-30/12/1870
'N°' (hand-written) Grey-brown paper covers, torn. Burial
accounts in French.
6/7/1865-31/12/1870 'Registres
des Sepultures' (blind-stamped on black leather, 1966
flood-damaged cover). Pages handwritten in French
giving complete careful accounting of costs for
burials.
9/9/1870-22/10/1872 'Notes volantes/ par qui
de droit/ en l'absence/ de Mr L . . . specteur du
Cimitiere/ commencé le 9 septembre 1870'. Handwritten
on white label bordered with blue-green design pasted
onto grey-brown paper. Water-damaged cover, 7 pages
filled in with burial expenses in French.
1871-1875 'Frais de Sepultures/
1871-1875'. Handwritten on white label with
blue ornamental border, pasted on brown marbled paper
covers, water damage, pages handwritten in French
giving complete careful accounting of costs for
burials.
Again, the records
for 1875-1877 are lost.
Receipts for payments
8/1/1852-11/1/1862 'Quittances/
Concernant/ l'Administration/ du/ Cimitière des
Protestants/ de/ Florence'. Bundle of Receipts
threaded between black-edged boards, numbered 1-500,
in Italian. These give complete
details of who paid whom, grave-digger costs, etc.
Cover
Receipt
for Burial: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Final Catalogues
1828-1873
[Without Title]. In black, water-damaged covers. List
of burials in temporal order from 17/1/1828 through
13/9/1873, compiled when it was known that the
Cemetery was to be closed. In Italian.
1828-1877
'REGISTRO ALFABETICO/ DELLE PERSONE TUMULATE/ NEL/
CIMITERO DI PINTI'. Alphabetical register handwritten
in Italian at the closure of the Swiss-owned Cemetery
in 1877. Cover has been restored and carefully bound
in leather.
1867-1870
The letters between Inginiere Pietro Garzoni, Pastore
Gustave Dalgas and Architetto Giuseppe Poggi
concerning the new landscaping and restructuring of
the 'English' Cemetery and its hill, to be an oval
instead of a square, and to be open to sight within an
iron railing instead of as walled around with stone.
These Archives were digitized by the Archivio di Stato
di Firenze. This documentation is shared with SDIAF (Sistema
Documentario
Integrato
dell'Area
Fiorentina),
of
which
we
are
a
member.
ALEPH=Bible
Commentaries/ Hebraism, Islam/ Alphabet, Babylonian/Egyptian,
Hebrew Bible, Greek Testament, Bible, Early Christianity, Desert
Fathers, Greek/Russian Orthodoxy, Latin Christianity, Celtic
Christianity, Anglo-Saxon Christianity, Hagiography, Medieval,
Renaissance Bible, Women in Christianity,
Liturgy/Cathechism/Magisterium, Church Today, Modern
Hagiography/Biography || Children BETH=Modern
Contemplative Theology, Newer Orders, Modern Communities, Anglican || Monastic
Orders: Benedictine, Brigittine, Carmelite, Carthusian, Dominican,
Franciscan/ Clarissan, Servites || Medieval Studies, Women in
Middle Ages, Beguine, Anchoress, Hermit, Julian of Norwich,
Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, Pilgrimage, Lollard, Quaker,
etc. || Comparative Religions GIMEL=Modern
Languages: French, Spanish, || Russian, Portuguese, German ||
Dictionaries, Hebrew, Greek, etc., Grammars, Style Handbooks,
Encyclopaedias || Florence's Political Theologians: Don Giulio
Facibeni, Giorgio La Pira, Fioretta Mazzei, Pietro Parigi, Don
Lorenzo Milani, Giannozzo Pucci, Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana| PE=Classics,
Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, Provençal: Italian Literature:
Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri; Italian History; Italian Travel;
Italian Art, in Sala Bessarion above the arch. DALETH=Icelandic
and British Isles' Literature: Icelandic, Irish, Welsh,
Arthurian, Old
English, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Drama, Chaucer,
Langland, Pearl/Sir Gawin/St Erkenwald, Renaissance, Seventeenth
Century, Eighteenth Century, Williaam Blake, Nineteenth Century,
Walter Savage Landor, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Frances, Thomas Adolphus, Anthony Trollope, Arthur
Hugh Clough, Nathaniel and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, George
Eliot, Henry James || Twentieth-Century, Samuel Beckett, James
Joyce, Poetry (Twentieth-Century
shelved above Nineteenth Century) HE=Trauma,
Women, Australian, African-American, Native American, Jew, Roma
|| Anglo-Florentines, English, American German, Polish ||
Criticism VAU=Music,
Theatre, Dance || Glorney Bolton, Eileen Bolton, Julia Bolton
Holloway publications ZAYIN=Travel
|| Art History || Codicology/ Paleography, Handcrafts KHETH=Electronic
and Microform Library, e-books on-line, CDs in library, microfilms
of medieval and nineteenth-century manuscripts, slides, etc. LAMED=
Education, in Office TET=Offprints,
Journals, etc. SHIN=Swiss Archives of the
'English' Cemetery, upstairs in Swiss archive room TAU='English'
Cemetery || Cemeteries || Books by Persons Buried Here || City and Book Conferences
on the English Cemetery || Gardens, in Office
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