Franciscana, directed by Diego Ciccarelli and Alessandro Musco, expressly concerned with the study of Franciscanism from the origins to its present-day forms of expression, with particular attention to the medieval age and the context of the presence in the Sicilian and Mediterranean area of Franciscan “knowledge”. It publishes new texts, studies, researches and collective volumes that are the fruit of seminars, meetings and conferences serving to deepen knowledge of literary, artistic, philosophical and theological, architectural and urbanistic, pastoral, religious and political forms with which the Minores have been able and willing to express their charisma, their message and their historical and social presence since the origins. Just by way of example we will mention the volume by Father Filippo Rotolo, OFM Conv, Il Beato Matteo d’Agrigento e la Provincia Francescana di Sicilia nella prima metà del secolo XV (being reprinted for the second time); Francescanesimo e cultura in Sicilia (secc. XIII -XVI), edited by Alessandro Musco; Francescanesimo e civiltà siciliana nel Quattrocento, edited by Diego Ciccarelli and Armando Bisanti; the edition with Italian translation of the Viridarium Principum. Francescanesimo e civiltà siciliana nel Quattrocento, by Andrea de Pace O.Min., edited by Diego Ciccarelli; the critical edition of the Sermones of Ruggero da Piazza, edited by Cataldo Roccaro; La dimora delle anime. Cappuccini nel Val di Mazara ed il Convento di Burgio, edited by Umberto Di Cristina, Antonio Gaziano and Rosanna Magri, a real “logbook” of an architectural restoration and of the recovery of the mummies, as well as of their garments, preserved in the crypt of the Burgios monastery turned into a museum; the two recent volumes I Francescani e la Politica, edited by Alessandro Musco. Then there are the volumes devoted to book circulation among the Franciscans in Sicily, to the cultural history and bibliographical patrimony of the Franciscan Library in Palermo edited by Diego Ciccarelti, to the Town Library at Troina and the collections of essays on the cultural presence of the Franciscans contextualized in areas like that of Noto, the Ragusa area, the Enna area and the Caltanissetta area, the Agrigento area, the Catania area, etc.

Biblioteca dell'Officina di Studi Medievali (BOSM), which publishes new essays, specific researches and proceedings of meetings organized by OSM on various aspects of the historical and cultural tradition of the Middle Ages. Among these, there is the volume by Iris Mirazita, Corleone: ultimo Medioevo. Eredità spirituali e patrimoni terreni; the collection of essays on medieval Palermo; the recent Italian edition, by Alessandro Musco, Pietro Colletta and Iole Turco, of the volume by Clifford Backman, published by the Cambridge University Press (for which OSM has purchased the rights), Declino e caduta della Sicilia medievale. Politica, cultura ed economia nel regno di Federico III d’Aragona, Rex Siciliae (1296-1337).

Machina Philosophorum. Testi e Studi dalle culture euro-mediteranee, coordinated by Maria Tilde Bettetini, Diego Ciccarelli, Alessandro Musco (director) and Giuseppe Roccaro, offering an opportunity for comparison of the differences between medieval cultures and their traditions to find a way of expressing itself and to spread. Officina and Machina are a continuum: the doing of knowledge: the curiosity of the sapientia that seeks and creates comparison, puts together the pieces of history. It composes, decomposes and recomposes the chapters and the paragraphs of knowledge, above all philosophical, of its understanding and of the way it is expressed during history. In addition to essays and critical studies, the series includes texts from the various traditions of medieval thought in the Euro-Mediterranean area, mostly unpublished, with Italian translation, original text opposite and ample commentary apparatuses particularly suited for teaching-university use. By way of example we will mentioned the editing of philosophical works like: Kalābādi, Il sufismo nelle parole degli antichi, one of the most significant treatises on Sufism, edited by Paolo Urizzi; Le Questioni siciliane. Federico II e l’universo filosofico, by the Sufi philosopher and teacher Ibn Sabīn, edited by Patrizia Spallino; Il Pungolo dei discepoli. Il sapere di un ebreo e Federico II, by the Jewish philosopher Ja'aqov Anatoli, translated and edited by Luciana Pepi; Alain de Lille, Le Regole del Diritto Celeste, edited by Carlo Chiurco; De Veritate by Anselm of Aosta edited by Pietro Palmari; Tenebra luminosissima. Commentary on Teologia Mistica” di Dionigi Areopagita by Albertus Magnus, edited by Giuseppe Allegro and Guglielmo Russino. Then there are numerous essays and volumes that are the fruit of seminars and meetings organised by OSM on Judaism in Sicily, on Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada alias Flavio Mitridate, on aspects of the Byzantine and Albanian tradition, on the uses of Signa in Sicilian documents, etc.

Scrinium. Quaderni ed estratti di Schede Medievali, which for almost thirty years has published papers and studies by one or more scholars on specific themes of medieval knowledge. We will mention: L'Islam e la trasmissione della cultura classica with essays by C. Baffioni, S. Noja, L. Olivieri and R. Rubinacci; I dipinti musicali della Cappella Palatina di Palermo, by D. Gramit; the essay by G. Allegro, La teologia di Pietro Abelardo tra letture e pregiudizi; the Proceedings of the seminar on Gli erbari medievali tra scienza, simbolo e magia; the collective volume Le “Visiones” nella cultura medievale; the collection of essays on L'edizione di testi mediolatini. Problemi metodi prospettive; the recent: Andrea Borruso, Da Oriente ad Occidente; Tawfīk al-Hakīm, Due drammi, edited by Andrea Borruso and Patrizia Spallino, which also offers, for the first time translated into Italian, Il Galateo Maggiore by Ibn Al-Mugaffa', the father of the literary Arabic language, etc.