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Hymns and Sacred Songs

Thomas à Kempis

This book is in Latin.

The hymns, sequences, antiphons and rhymes of Thomas: on Jesus and his name, the Virgin, angels and saints (above all the virgin martyrs Agnes, Cecilia and Barbara), heavenly glory, patience and the spiritual life. Latin only: Pohl's critical edition (Freiburg 1918), from a raw OCR of the printed volume; no public-domain English translation has been found. Verse lines are kept as printed.

Contents

Source: The hymns as Pohl numbers them (I-CX; a few numerals lost to OCR leave gaps or merge neighbours), with the verse lines kept as hard line breaks and stanzas as paragraphs. Titles are Pohl's upper-case headings recased, or the first line where there is none. Line numbers, running heads and page breaks stripped by script; the alphabetical index of incipits was used to restore first words lost to drop capitals. Raw OCR: drop capitals and many first lines remain garbled.