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The Little Garden of Roses

Thomas à Kempis

The first of Thomas's two companion garden books, in eighteen short chapters on good company, silence, repentance, the Passion and the heavenly homeland, each opening on a scripture verse. The Latin is Pohl's critical edition (Freiburg 1918), from a raw OCR of the printed volume; the English is the anonymous 1867 Baltimore translation.

Contents

Source: The eighteen chapters of the Hortulus rosarum. Line numbers, running heads and page breaks stripped by script; Pohl's critical footnotes and introduction are not imported. Chapter titles are Pohl's upper-case titles recased (u/v normalised by script). Raw OCR: drop capitals at chapter openings and isolated letters are often garbled. · The eighteen chapters of the Hortulus, matched chapter by chapter with the Latin. The English prints each chapter's Latin scripture motto and its translation. Raw OCR with residual slips.