The cell of self-knowledge
Subtitle: seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521
By: edited with an introduction and notes by Edmund G. Gardner, M.A.
Series: Kessinger legacy reprints; Kessinger Publishing's legacy reprints
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Whitefish, Montana]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781164236511
Subjects: Devotional literature
Notes: Originally published Chatto & Windus, London, and Duffield & Co., New York, in 1910.
Table of contents: title: I. A very devout treatise, named Benjamin, of the mights and virtues of a man's soul, and of the way to true contemplation, compiled by ... Richard of Saint Victor; title: II. Divers doctrines devout and fruitful, taken out of the life of that glorious virgin and spouse of Our Lord, Saint Katherin of Seenes; title: III. A short treatise of contemplation taught by Our Lord Jesus Christ, or taken out of the book of Margery Kempe, ancress of Lynn; title: IV. A devout treatise, compiled by Master Walter Hylton, of the song of angels; title: V. A devout treatise called the Epistle of prayer; title: VI. A very necessary epistle of discretion in stirrings of the soul; title: VII. A devout treatise of discerning of spirits, very necessary for ghostly livers.