The folowinge of Chryste, translated oute of Latyn into Englysh, newly corrected and amended. Wherevnto also is added the golden epystell of Saynt Barnarde.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. Epistola de perfectione vitae. English, author.

Contributor:

• Whitford, Richard, active 1495-1555?
• Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, attributed name.
• Peto, William, -1588.

Series:

• Early English books online

Standardized Title:

• Imitatio Christi. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Meditations--Early works to 1800.
• Meditations.
• Christian life--Early works to 1800.
• Christian life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, cxxxix id est 148 ; leaves, 40 unnumbered leaves)

Place of Publication:

[Prynted at London : In Pawles Churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Gooste by Iohn Cawood], The. xviii, of September. anno, M,D.L.VI, [1556]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• A translation, by Richard Whitford, of: Imitatio Christi.
• The traditional attribution to Thomas a ̀Kempis is disputed.
• Edited by William Peto.
• At foot of title: Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
• Printer's name and address from colophon.
• Signatures: A-T V⁴; A-E; numerous errors in foliation.
• Book 4 begins new register.
• The "Golden epistle", a translation by Whitford of "Epistola de perfectione vitae", is reprinted from STC 1912, with Whitford's name at the end.
• Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 334:3) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 23966.

Related Work:

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. Epistola de perfectione vitae. English, author.

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