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The Kingdom of the Lovers of God

Bl. John Ruusbroec (1293-1381)

Ruusbroec's earliest treatise: the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and the five kingdoms of God. The Middle Dutch text of J. B. David (1861). English: T. A. Hyde, 1919, translated from Surius' Latin, 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 (research/sourcing/_scripts/ruusen_build.py); running heads removed. Hyde translated Surius' Latin, so the wording follows the Latin; the chapters match David's. The translator's introduction and the Dutch prologue are not included.