The cell of self-knowledge: seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 / ed. with an introduction and notes by Edmund G. Gardner, M.A.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pepwell, Henry, -1539 or 1540, compiler.

Gardner, Edmund G., 1869-1935, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New medieval library.

The new medieval library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devotional literature.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 134 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : frontispiece ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Chatto & Windus; New York : Duffield & Co., 1910.

Contents:

I. A very devout treatise, named Benjamin, of the mights and virtues of a man's soul, and of the way to true contemplation, comp. by ... Richard of Saint Victor.

II. Divers doctrines devout and fruitful, taken out of the life of that glorious virgin and spouse of Our Lord, Saint Katherin of Seenes.

III. A short treatise of contemplation taught by Our Lord Jesus Christ, or taken out of the book of Margery Kempe, ancress of Lynn.

IV. A devout treatise, comp. by Master Walter Hylton, of the song of angels.

V. A devout treatise called the Epistle of prayer.

VI. A very necessary epistle of discretion in stirrings of the soul.

VII. A devout treatise of discerning of spirits, very necessary for ghostly livers.

Notes:

Added t.-p. within ornamental border.

OCLC:

4690491