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The Spiritual Espousals (Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage)

Bl. John Ruusbroec (1293-1381)

This book is in dum.

Ruusbroec's masterpiece in three books on the active, the interior and the contemplative life, a commentary on 'Behold the Bridegroom comes' (Mt 25:6). The Middle Dutch text of J. B. David (1868), with manuscript variants and Surius' Latin readings in footnotes.

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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.