The following of Christ
Subtitle: translated out of Latin into Englishe, newlie corrected and amended. VVherento also is added the golden epistle of Sainct Bernarde. And nowe lastelie the rules of a Christian lyfe, made by Iohn Picus the elder earle of Mirandula
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: G. L'Oyselet
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Rouen
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Example; Early works to 1800; Meditations; Christian life
Other titles: Swete and deuoute sermon of mortalitie of man.; Epistola de perfectione vitae. English.; Regulae duodecim portim excitantes portim dirigentes hominem in pugna spirituali. English.
Work titles: Imitatio Christi English
Notes: The traditional attribution to Thomas a ̀Kempis is disputed.

An English translation, by R. Whitford, of: Imitatio Christi.

Place of publication and printer's name from STC.

With woodcut title vignette.

"Here beginneth a godly treatise, and it is called a notable lesson, otherwise it is called the golden epistle" and "The rules of a Christian lyfe, made by John Picus the elder erle of Mirandula" have caption titles.

"The Pico rules" are in Sir Thomas Elyot's translation, reprinted from STC 6157: St. Cyprian. A swete and deuoute sermon of mortalitie of man, published in 1534.

Formerly also STC 23960a.

Whitford's translation first published ca. 1531 (STC 23961) with title: A boek newely translated out of Laten in to Englysshe, called the followynge of Cryste.

STC (2nd ed.) 23968.

Imperfect: title page wanting.