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The Book of the Twelve Béguines

Bl. John Ruusbroec (1293-1381)

This book is in dum.

Ruusbroec's last and longest work: twelve béguines discuss love of Christ, with digressions on the heavens, the planets, the Church and Christ's Passion. The Middle Dutch text of J. B. David (1863); the chapter titles are Latin (after Surius).

Contents

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.