Comfortable words for Christ's lovers: being the visions and voices vouchsafed to Lady Julian

Introduction

The author is deeply aware of the complex difficulties of the task he has boldly undertaken and would be grateful for any corrections of errors from more qualified scholars.

The numbers in the text refer the reader to the glossary at the end, on page 133.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LADY JULIAN

Lady Julian refers to Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1416), the famous English mystic and anchorite.

I. Manuscripts i. British Museum
(1) Additional Manuscript 37,790. original: Addit. MS. This is known as the Amherst Manuscript, which contains the "Short Text" of Julian’s Revelations. [Mid-fifteenth century.]
(2) Sloane Manuscript 2499. [Late seventeenth century.]
(3) Sloane Manuscript 3705. [Mid-eighteenth century.]
ii. Paris: National Library of France original: Bibliothèque Nationale. English Collection original: Fonds anglais, 40. [Sixteenth century.]

II. Printed editions. i. Based on the Paris manuscript.
(1) Dom Serenus de Cressy, 1670. Dom Serenus de Cressy (c. 1605–1674) was a Benedictine monk who published the first printed edition of Julian's "Revelations of Divine Love."