Nonfiction · 1521
The Cell of Self-Knowledge
Seven Early English Mystical Treatises Printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521
The Cell of Self-Knowledge, first published in 1521, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Note
- The Prologue
- VI — A Devout Treatise called the Epistle of Prayer: A very necessary Epistle of Discretion in Stirrings of the Soul
- Introduction
- I
- The Prologue
- II
- III — Deo Gratis: Here Beginneth a Short Treatise of Contemplation Taught by Our Lord Jesu Christ, or Taken Out of the Book of Margery Kempe, Ancress of Lynn
- IV — Here Followeth a Devout Treatise Compiled by Master Walter Hylton of the Song of Angels
- V — Explicit: Here After Followeth a Devout Treatise Called the Epistle of Prayer
- VI — Here Followeth Also a Very Necessary Epistle of Discretion in Stirrings of the Soul
- VII — Finit Epistola: Here Followeth a Devout Treatise of Discerning of Spirits, Very Necessary for Ghostly Livers
- Index of Names & Scriptural References
- Footnotes
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