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Annus Sanctus Venerabilis Thomae à Kempen Ferens Fructus Sanctos Sive Principia, Axiomata, Doctrinas ... Ex Quatuor Libris De Imitatione Christi [The Holy Year of the Venerable Thomas a Kempis ... Out of the Four Books of the Imitation of Christ] Author: Thomas a Kempis In Latin. 1728 first edition Apud Franciscum Metternich ( Coloniae Agrippinae - Cologne, Germany), 4 x 6 7/8 inches tall hardbound, marbled paper-covered boards over leather spine, [16], 992, [40], 16 pp. Covers rubbed, bumped and edgeworn, cracked along the fore edge, with the spine leather chipped, flaking and split down the middle. Lacking blank endpapers, but otherwise complete. Title page chipped and ink marked, not affecting text. Contents are age toned and foxed, but the paper is still supple and all is quite legible. Nicely enclosed and protected in an acid-free, lignin-free Brodart rare book box, with the title page to the front and title to the spine for easy identification. Scarce. Includes ' Ordo exercitiorum spiritualium octiduanorum ' (16 pp.) at the end. An important collection of works, edited by German Jesuit scholar Franz Kappenstein, about and drawn from The Imitation of Christ and other significant works by Thomas a Kempis. The Imitation of Christ was written (or at a minimum, transcribed) by Catholic monk Thomas Kempis (circa 1380-1471), as four separate books completed between 1420 and 1427, at Mount Saint Agnes monastery, in the town of Windesheim, located in what is now the Netherlands. He wrote these works for the instruction of novices of his Augustinian monastic order, followers of Geert Groote's Brethren of the Common Life. But the writings quickly became popular among all the literate faithful. They were copied together in one manuscript as early as 1427, by Kempis, and copied (and later printed) together fairly consistently thereafter. Soon after hand-copied versions of the Imitatio Christi initially appeared, the printing press was invented, and it was among the first books after the Bible to be printed. There is probably no other book other than the Bible which has been printed in so many editions and translations. In the past six hundred years, the work has been translated from Kempis' medieval Latin into nearly every language in the world.
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