Shorter Treatises

Name: Shorter Treatises
Author: Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

This book is in Latin.

Six short treatises: a devout letter to a religious, the commendation of humility, the mortified life, the good and peaceful life, the lifting of the mind to God, and a brief admonition on spiritual exercise. Each is one chapter. Latin only: Pohl's critical edition (Freiburg 1904), from a raw OCR of the printed volume; no public-domain English translation has been found.

Source: Six tractatuli of Pohl vol. II, one chapter each (De disciplina claustralium, the Libellus spiritualis exercitii and De recognitione propriae fragilitatis are separate books). Pohl's text without his critical apparatus and introduction; line numbers, running heads and page breaks stripped by script, upper-case chapter titles recased (u/v normalised by script). Raw OCR: drop capitals at openings are often garbled and some slips remain after the scripted lexicon repair.