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The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas's history of his own monastery near Zwolle, from its foundation by the disciples of Gerard Groote in 1384 to his own day: the first brothers, the building, the priors and their deaths, the visitations and the lay brothers, with a section from his chronicle on events outside the house and William Vornken's letter on the origins of Windesheim. English only (J. P. Arthur, 1906); Pohl's Latin (Opera omnia VII, 1922) is not yet imported.

Contents

Source: The preface, the 29 chapters of the Chronicle, the 24 chapters "From the chronicle of our Brother Thomas of Kempen concerning matters not pertaining to our house" and the 30 sections of William Vornken's letter on Windesheim, as the translation prints them. The translator's note and the Gutenberg licence are dropped.