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The Book of Supreme Truth

Bl. John Ruusbroec (1293-1381)

Ruusbroec's clarification of union with God, written against false mysticism (also called the Little Book of Enlightenment). The Middle Dutch text of J. B. David (1868). The English is C. A. Wynschenk Dom (1916), chapter for chapter.

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Source: Keyed text from DBNL (TEI XML, 'auteursrechtvrij'), converted by research/sourcing/_scripts/rhineland/ruus_build.py. Line-end hyphens joined; page and line breaks dropped. David's apparatus is kept as footnotes (manuscript variants F, G, I, L, M, D, Surius' Latin readings 'Sur.'). David's Dutch preface, manuscript list, misprint list and glossary are not included. · OCR of the archive.org scan, rejoined across lines and pages by research/sourcing/_scripts/wyn_build.py; running heads removed; Underhill's endnotes placed as footnotes at the passage that cites them. Not proofread against the page images.