601J. Pseudo-Augustine; Saint Augustine (354-430); [Jean de Fécamp(1078).]
Bernard of Claravallensis (1090-1153); Peter Damian (1007-1072); Saint Anselm of Canterbury, (1033-1109); Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419); Mateo Vegio (1407-1458); Pope Pius II,(Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini) (1405-1464).
Libellus Meditationum
¶ Hec sunt que in hoc opusculo continentur.¶ Meditationes diui Augustini episcopi hypponensis¶ Soliloquia eiusdem¶ Manuale eiusdem¶ Castigatissime. ….
Brescia: Angelus Britannicus de Pallazolo Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliograìfico. 8 Oct. 1498 Price : $ 5,500
Octavo 14 x 10 cm. Signatures: π4, a-n8, o10, l8, m12, p8. With all 4 blanks as in the collation, colophon on o9. This is the third edition of these texts, the first with the additional authors by Masellus Beneventanus (ƒl 1470) This copy is bound in later but old full vellum, a large copy with some deckle edges. Woodcut printer’s device C on leaf o9 verso. For Britannicus’s device C, see BM 15th cent., VII, 972.
The contents are :
Pseudo Augustine: “Meditationes”. a2r- e5r: Soliloquia: e5v-i3r Manuale (Ausg. c).i3r – l1v: Pseudo-Bernardus: Meditationes. l2r-m8v . De perfectione vitae.n1r- n2v: Petrus Damiani: Sermo. -n2r- n3v: Anselm of Canterbury: Meditationes. n3v-o8r: N. Laudensis: Carmina.o8r Pius II, Papst: In laudem divi Augustini. — o8v: Maphaeus Vegius: Epigramma in laudem Monicae. o8-o10v Vincentius Ferrerius: De vita spirituali. l1—m11v Pseudo-Bernardus: Sermo de passione domini, p1rp7v
This is a collection of eleven devotional texts, circulated under authorial pseudonyms during the medieval period most of which are of apocryphal authorship and were collected in the eleventh/thirteenth century. This 1498 example was assembled or compiled by Masellus Beneventanus (fl. 1470).
IN Pseudo-Augustine and Religious Controversy in Early Modern England Julia D. Staykova writes that :
“we need to bear in mind that it was the product of a culture whose models of authorship vary significantly from our own. The apocryphal Meditations, Soliloquies and Manual illustrate an evolution of textual practices that separates our own perception of the author as a singular and authentic agent from medieval authorship by participation in a multi-centennial collective of contributors. Essentially, Pseudo-Augustine is the product of an age that valued continuity and promoted innovation by establishing ties with it with authority”
Often attributed to Jean de Fécamp (early 11th century – 22 February 1079) :who wrote under the name of famous writers, his most popular book was the Meditations of St. Augustine . He was born near Ravenna and died at Fécamp Normandy, where he was the Abbot of the Abbey of Fécamp. He was nicknamed ‘Jeannelin’ or ‘Little John’ on account of his diminutive stature. “The fact that John’s work almost entirely Attributed to , including Ambrose, Augustine, John Cassian, Alcuin, Anselm and Bernard of Clairvaux, means that it was only in the 20th century that a greater understanding of his own thought was developed. “John wrote a first book of prayers, his Confessio Theologica (Theological Confession), in three parts, composed before 1018. This book was then rearranged and reworked to form a second book, Libellus de scripturis et verbis patrum (The Little Book of Writings and Words of the Fathers for the Use especially of Those who are Lovers of the Contemplative Life).This second work, circulating under the title of The Meditations of Saint Augustine, also proved very popular in the later medieval period.
Located Copies
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland :
London, British Library (IA.31165) (Incomplete. Wanting the first, unsigned quire with title and table, and quire p with the Sermo de passione domini). and Cambridge, University .
USA: The Walters Art Museum Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania State Univ, Huntington Library Stanford Univ. Library, The Newberry Library, Yale University, Beinecke Library
Expositio Gualteri Burlei super decem Libros Ethicorum Aristotelis (Contains the text of Robert Grosseteste’s translation of the Nicomachean Ethics)
Venice: Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, 4 September 1500 $11,500
Folio, 12 1/4 X 8 1/2 in. A8 a6b-x8 y10. Second edition after the first of 1481.
This copy is bound in contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards with 3 (of 4) metal catches on front cover, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, conspicuous termite damage on front cover, rear cover replaced with modern board, endpapers renewed; contents washed with residual soiling on opening leaves, worming through much of volume generally not impairing legibility, crude restoration in blank margins at beginning and end .
Ethica Nicomachea, Books 1-10, in the Latin translation of Robertus Grosseteste( 1175-1253) , incipit “[O]Mnis ars et om[n]is doctrina similiter aut[em] [et] actus [et] electio bonum quodda[m] ap=pete[re] videt[ur]. J[de]o b[e]n[e] enunciaueru[n]t bonu[m] q[uo]d omnia appetu[n]t”, b1r-y9v; colophon (Venetijs impresse arte Simonis de Leure: impensis v[ir]o domini Andree Torresani de Asula. Anno M.D. die v[er]o, IIIJ. Septebris.,), y10r; printer’s register, y10r. Wood cut diagrams.
Walter Burley, was one of the most prominent logicians and metaphysicians of the Middle Ages
“The first Latin translations of Aristotle’sNicomachean Ethics, the Ethica vetus and the Ethica nova, are the object of six commentaries from the first half of the thirteenth century, presumably written by Parisian arts masters. Typical for these early commentaries is the interpretation of Aristotle’s doctrine in the light of Christian religion. In 1246/1248, Robert Grosseteste achieved a complete translation of the Nicomachean Ethics. The first to write commentaries on it were Albert the Great (twice) and Thomas Aquinas. Both attempted to interpret Aristotle philosophically; the extent to which Aquinas nevertheless admitted theological views is disputed in scholarship. The commentary of Aquinas was a major source for many other commentaries of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
Goff; b-1301 ; BMC 15th cent.,; v, 576 (ib. 24667); GW; 5779; ; Hain-Copinger; *4144; Harman, m. incunabula in the University of illinois library at urbana-champaign (1979); 191; ISTC (online); ib01301000; Proctor; 5269; Pellechet; 3080 lines df (2002)
Aristotle’s ethics in the italian renaissance (ca. 1300–1650): the universities and the problem of moral education. Brill, Leiden
Iacopo Costa. The Ethics of Walter Burley. Alessandro D. Conti. A Companion to Walter Burley. Late Medieval Logician and Metaphysician, A Companion to Walter Burley : Late Medieval Logician and Metaphysician, pp.321-346, 2013, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, ISSN : 1871-6377 ; 41. ⟨halshs-00843864⟩
f.1 VITAM BONAM ET EXITUM Beatum | Ego Frater Guilhermus sacre Theologie Profes | sor minimus parisius educat[um]. Sacroru[m] euangelio|rum ac epistolariu[m] de te[m]pore dieb[us] dominicus et sa[n] | ctis. Etiam super cômune Apostolo[rum] Martirum. confossorum. | virginum. Et pro defunctis Exposiciones in vnu[m] colligere v | olume mius expertis clericis.
f 180v: [Et ego reſuſci—||tabo eum in nouiſſimo die] quo ad coꝛpus vt ſimul gaudeat|| in coꝛpore et in anima.
Poſtilla ſuper epiſtolis et euangelijs dominicalibus feſt||uitatibus ac de ſanctis per anni ciꝛculum ſecūdum ſenſum||litteralem collecta feliciter Explicit.
[Vienne: Eberhard Frommolt. not before 1480] ( Date and assignment to printer by GW)
BOUND WITH
[Basel: Johann Amerbach, [ A copy at Frankfurt am Main has rubricator’s date 28 Sept. 1481]
Price $22,000
Chanclery Folio. 26.8 x 18 cm. signatures: [a–x⁸ y-z⁶]. 179 of 180 leaves 40 lines Lacking the initial blank. Three-to six-line capital spaces, with guide letters. Six-line opening text initial supplied in red, capital strokes. In this edition the comentaries are pinted within the text controled by brackets. Many initials supplied in red.
“More than one hundred editions of the Postilla super epistolas et evangelia by Guillermus Parisiensis were printed during the fifteenth century. Surely this esteemed compilation must be regarded as one of the earliest ‘best sellers’, for how else can one explain why the text was not only frequently reprinted but was reissued time and time again by the same printer. The introduction to the Postilla, his only published work, tells us that he was a Dominican and a professor of sacred theology at Paris. This compilation of the Postilla was written down in 1437 expressly for members of the clergy and for those desirous of understanding the excerpts from the Epistles and the Evangelists, more commonly called lessons, which are read at appropriate services throughout the church year. It obviously filled a most pressing need” (Goff, “The Postilla of Guillermus Parisiensis,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1959, p. 73).
Thirteen titles are assigned to Frommolt. Of the present edition, only four copies are known with Only one in the US at Brown University which came from the Southwark Diocesan Archives, London.
Johannes de Turrecremata, (1388-1468) NICOLAUS DE BYARD(fl. c.1300).
Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis. & [Dictionarius pauperum:] Flos theologiae sive Summa de abstinentia. ; 2 parts in 1 volume.
Incipit materia aurea enucleata ex originalib[us] virtutu[m] et vitioru[m], Flos theologi[a]e nu[n]cupata, [secundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti pro sermonib[us] applicabilis tam de tempore q[uam] de sanctis totius anni.
[Basel: Johann Amerbach, [ A copy at Frankfurt am Main has rubricator’s date 28 Sept. 1481]
(Price for both Above)
Chanclery Folio. 26.8 x 18 cm. [350].f ; 110 28 310 48 58 A10/8-L10 M12 (Flos) π8, a10/8-v8 x6
Collection of the late Phyllis and John Gordan, New York NY (BMawrCL?)
Columbia University,
Cornell Univ.
Free Library of Philadelphia,
Library of Congress,
Huntington Library
Southern Methodist
Stanford Univ. Library
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Washington Univ.
Yale
)-(
658J. Eusebius -(275-339)
(La vita el transito) Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi).
[Venice, Hannibal Foxius, 1 June 1487]. $6,000
Octavo 16.7x12cm. Signatures: a–i8. 72 leaves, 36 lines, Roman letter, rubricated with capital letters in red ink. Several annotations in ink and marginal notes, first leaf mounted, 5 leaves, small wormholes touching the letters on the front edge of 4 leaves, 2 intermediate margins reinforced with old paper strips, small worming marks on 4 leaves. – Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label “Transito di San Gerolamo, Venetia, 1487”
This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed to threefamous Bishops who were contemporaries of St Jerome Eusebius of Cremona 347-420, Augustine ofHippo 354- 430 and Cyril of Jerusalem 313-386.,
ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*;
GW 9466].
United States:
Walters Library & Huntington Library. ONLY
ntritter, and is believed to have been printed using funds provided by Santritter, as was Paulus Pergulensis’s Compendium logicae printed by E. Ratdolt in 1481. It includes the two-color printing and table-style printing at which Ratdolt excelled. Santritter himself was a printer, and there are five known titles of incunabula that he printed.
Pelbartus de Themeswar No US Copy (not in Goff) No copies in the UK.
Beside being quite rare, it has extensive and mostly complete provenance, a contemporary binding with a blind stamped title, rubrication.
305J Pelbartus de Themeswar (1430-1504)
305J colophon
Sermones Pomerii fratris Pelbarti de Themeswar diui ordinis sancti Francisci de Sanctis: Jncipiunt feliciter.
Hagenau(Augsburg): Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman, 30 September, 1501. [imp[re]ssi … p[er] industriu[m] Henricu[m] Gran i[n] imp[eri]ali oppido Hagenaw: expe[n]sis ac su[m]ptib[us] p[ro]uidi Joha[n]nis Rynman Finiu[n]t feliciter: Anno … millesimoq[ui]nge[n]tesimoprimo. vltimo die Septe[m]bris] $6,000
Folio 12 x 8 inches Probably about the fourth edition. ( the listings for this book are all pretty sloppy despite Gran’s placing the exact dates in the colophon: 20 feb 1499, 10 November 1499, 8 June 1500,
COLLATION:Completely unpaginated throughout, Signatures: π6 [chi]6 a-b8 c6 d-e8 f6 g-h8 i6 k-l8 m6 n-o8 p6 q-s8 t6 v-x8 y6 z8 A8 B6 C-D8 E6 F-G8H6 I-K8 L6 M-N8 O6 P-Q8 R6 S-T8 U6 X-Y8 Z6 [&]8 leaves 12 and 358 blank . (13, 357 ff. ) TYPE: two columns, 58 lines per page plus headline, gothic letter, with guide letters and spaces for numerous four and six line ornamental capitals, contemporaneously hand rubricated in red ink throughout.
This copy is bound contemporary blind-stamped leather over wooden boards from an Augsburg workshop operating between 1482 and 1532 (Kyriss 79). Front board panelled with two blind rolls, one formed of arches, the other of birds and flowers, panel filled with further use of bird and flower blind roll and surmounted by blind-lettered title “POMERIUS*S”. Rear board panelled with same bird and flower blind roll, panel infilled with diagonally crossing blind fillets.
There is Early monastic ink title to fore-edge and ink inscription to front free endpaper, nineteenth century ink inscription to front pastedown, wormholes to opening and closing leaves, a couple of unobtrusive wormholes extending into first few quires touching a few letters, corners of two leaves torn well clear of text, leaf A8 soiled at edges and possibly supplied from another copy, occasional very light paper browning otherwise internally clean. Binding worn with minor chips and losses, rebacked, upper edge of rear board damaged exposing wood beneath (not affecting blind rolls), remains of hasps and clasps, light marks to centre of each board where central brass bosses were once affixed.
The Bavarian binding and inscription to its front free endpaper indicate very early acquisition by the medieval 1)Benedictine Monastery of the Abbey of Irsee, Bavaria. Upon the dissolution of Bavarian monasteries in 1803 the volume was acquired by 2)Munich Court Library; a nineteenth century ink inscription to the front pastedown notes the copy to have been a duplicate and it was doubtless sold between 1815 and 1859 when the library instigated a series of large auctions to dispose of surplus items. Sometime after 1880 it was acquired by the 3) Benedictine monastery of Erdington Abbey, Birmingham, England, established for monks expelled in Bismarck’s kultur-kampf from Beuron, Prussia. In 1922 the Erdington monastery was dissolved following return of its monks to Beuron after World War I, and its library appears to have been subsequently disbursed.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: Included in the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ISTC ip00252500, citing holdings at 15 locations globally with none in the US or UK; Hain 12557 (describing an imperfect copy). An attractive copy of this rare early work in entirely original state with substantial provenance.
Fourth or so edition of this collection of sermons by Pelbartus de Themesvar, Hungarian Franciscan at the St. John Monastery in Buda. The popular text was first published in 1499 He was born in 1430 in Temesvár, Hungary (now Timişoara, Romania). In 1458 he went to the University of Kraków. In 1463 he was licensed in Theology. Possibly in 1471 he left Kraków as a doctor, then in 1483 he is mentioned in the Franciscan Community Annales of St. John Monastery in Buda, the Hungarian Capital city. After 1483 his writings began to be published in print. The first printed edition of his Sermons dates from 1498. In 1503 a printed version of his lecture notes was published. Pelbartus died on 9 January 1504 in Buda, as a highly distinguished author and professor. Hungarian versions of his writings in manuscript date from 1510.
794J Prosper of Aquitanus ±c. 499-505 (more likely Julian Pomerius)
Prosper de vita contemplatina atque actuali : sive de norma ecclesiasticorum
[Speyer : Peter Drach], 1487 Price $7,500
Quarto 18 x 13.5 cm Signatures: a-c8 d-f6 g8 (g8 blank and present) Bound in early green sturdy vellum slight cracking at joint; paste-downs with bookplates, light wear, glue residue at front with free endpaper glued to front paste-down at inner margin; mild cracking at front hinge; several leaves with small corner losses or tears, or small corner repairs; pages toned with occasional light grime, foxing, and light damp staining; upper margin closely trimmed; a good copy.
Pseudo- Prosper. The author is probably Julianus Pomerius, cf Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, VIII (Freiburg i.B., 1936) pp.362, 504-505 (Aquilon) “Pomerius. [He] claims for Pomerius the further distinction of having bequeathed to us the oldest pastoral instruction that survives in the West. Mostly certainly, [Julianus Pomerius] is to be credited with a place of honor in the survival and justification of Augustine’s name and teaching; and the thoughtful reader of his one remaining treatise will not deny him his place in the early history of pastoral theology. But who other than patrologists and a few theologians even know the name Pomerius” (Suelzer, Mary Josephine (1947). Julianus Pomerius, A Contemplative Life) De vita contemplative (or De contemptu mundi) in three books treats of the value of the contemplative life, the second of the active life of the Christian, and the third of vices and virtues.
. The entire works are full of the spirit of Augustine. The similarity of the latter treatise to the eschatological meditations of St. Julian, bishop of Toledo, early led to Julian’s identification with Pomerius, who flourished fully two centuries before him. Julian, a convert from Judaism, was archbishop from Jan. 29, 680, to Mar. 8, 690, and was zealous in defending and extending the faith and reformation of the clergy, at the same time maintaining a firm attitude toward Benedict II. when the pope criticized his creed. His apology addressed to Benedict, together with some of his other works, has been lost; but his Prognosticorum futuri seculi libre tres (Leipsic, 1535); De demonstratione sextette’s (Heidelberg, 1532);. He probably took part in the final redaction of the old Spanish liturgy and of the Visigothic canon law.
Jncipit Exposicio v[e]l Meditacio fr[at]is Hieronimi sauonarole de Ferraria ordi[ni]s p[rae]dicatorus in psalmu[m] Jn te d[omi]ne speraui. qua[m] i[n] vltimis dieb[us] du[m] vite sue fine[m] prestolaretur edidit.
(Exposicio in psalmum XXXI In te domine speravi).
N.pl., n.d. (prob. the ed. Magdenburg, Moritz Brandis), after 1500, Price: $6,600
Quarto 20 x 15 cm. a4,b4. (8) lvs.
This copy is rubricated in red, Bound modern boards covered with an incunable leaf. The First leaf with the incipit has the outer edges remargined; a few tiny wormholes throughout (mostly in the blank margins).
Most likely third printed edition. (all editions are undated of this Savonarola’s last two works, first published 1498 Louvain?, 1499 Milan, 1500 Augsburg & or Magdeburg).
In 1497/8 The Dominican preacher Hieronymus Savonarola wrote these two text while in prison in Florence in 1498, charged with heresy, and having been found guilty was burned at the stake in that year. He was a Catholic and a critic of the luxurious lives of the rulers, the Medici family, of the Florentian people and the corruption in the Catholic Church. His sermons resulted in the downfall of the ruling Medici family. Pope Alexander VI excommunicated him.
“ Savonarola , after his first ” examination ” was for nearly amonth of quiet in the little prison , which, after all, was notless spacious or comfortable than his cell. This resting timenthe victim employed in a manner befitting his characterand life. He wrote two meditations , one on the Miserere(5 1st Psalm) and the other on the 31 st Psalm, in which hepoured out his whole heart in communion with God. Withthe right hand which had been spared to him in diabolicalmercy that he might be able to sign the false papers whichwere intended to cover him with ignominy, he still had itin his power to leave a record of that intercourse with hisheavenly Master in which his stricken soul found strengthand comfort. Between the miserable lies of the notary Ceccone,over which those Florentine nobles in the palace werewrangling ; and the stillness of the little prison hung highin air over their heads, where a great soul in noble trustyet sadness approached its Maker, what a difference!” [E. H. PEROWNE, D.D. 1900 ]
These works are meditations and conversations with God and Savonarola alone and stand out among four other great texts dealing with one similar situation and three other texts on the same psalms. Savonarola’s texts are unlike Boethius’ Consolation of philosophy, it is not an allegoric apocalyptic dialogue, rather it is a recorded scene of one man bonding to /God. Unlike Saint Augustine not commentary and explanations of these psalms, unlike Saint Aquinas who formalizes and instructs his reader how to understand these psalms, and also unlike Martin Luther who said of Psalm 51, “A knowledge of this psalm is necessary and useful in many ways. It contains instruction about the chief parts of our religion, about repentance, sin, grace, and justification, as well as about the worship we ought to render to God. These are divine and heavenly doctrines. Unless they are taught by the great Spirit, they cannot enter the heart of man.” Savonarola’s text are painfully personal and heart wrenching.
Psalms 51& 30 (Psalms 50 & 31 in Septuagint numbering)
51 “Miserere Mei Deus” Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
30 “In te, Domine, speravi non confounder in æternum” In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion.
Under torture Savonarola confessed to having invented his prophecies and visions, then recanted, then confessed again. In his prison cell in the tower of the government palace he composed meditations on Psalms 51 and 31. On the morning of 23 May 1498, Savonarola and two other friars were led out into the main square where, before a tribunal of high clerics and government officials, they were condemned as heretics and schismatics, and sentenced to die forthwith. Stripped of their Dominican garments in ritual degradation, they mounted the scaffold in their thin white shirts. Each on a separate gallows, they were hanged, while fires were ignited below them to consume their bodies. To prevent devotees from searching for relics, their ashes were carted away and scattered in the Arno .
ISTC locates one U.S. copy. New Haven CT, Yale University, Beinecke. Worldwide number of holding institutions 20
Goff (suppl.); S-206a; BMC, II 601; GW M40482 ; Hain-Copinger; 14412; Reichling; 1384; Audin de Rians, E. Bib.,; 138; ISTC No.is00206500. https://data.cerl.org/istc/is00206500 United Kingdom British Library (IA.10973)
Cf. P. Scapecchi, Cat. Savonarola,; 87 (Catalogo delle edizioni di Girolamo Savonarola (secc. XV-XVI) possedute dalla Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze)
John Patrick Donnelly S.J Girolamo Savonarola, Prison Meditations on Psalms 51 and 31 Tr., Ed. . (Milwaukee, Marquette University Press, 1994).
Martin Luther, Selected Psalms, in Luther’s Works, vols. 12-14 (St. Louis, MO: Concordia, 1974-1976), 12:305.
Cologne: Johann Landen, December 1500/1501. PRICE $15,000
Octavo, 13.4 x 10cm. Signatures A-Q8. In this copy there are lombard initials in red and blue, one with dog-head decoration, red capital strokes, paragraph marks, and underlining.
A Woodcut appears three times, on title, title verso, and verso of final leaf (margin of f. 2 slightly extended, occasional damp stains at gutter and edges, a few leaves in gathering O stained and one with short closed tear). Bound in modern vellum with manuscript antiphonal leaf reused as pastedowns.
No copies of this edition are recorded at auction by ABPC or RBH.
VD16 S 6103; ISTC is00876500; Goldschmidt p. 135. See Ford BPH 177 (first edition) and 178 (fourth edition). [APA citation. McMahon, A. (1910). Blessed Henry Suso. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved April 27, 2022 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07238c.htm%5D
Holdings: GermanyWuppertal StB & Russia Moscow, [Russian State Library] Rossijskaja Gosudarstvennaja Biblioteka (Berlin copy). Number of holding institutions 2.
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The German Mystics of the fourteenth century, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler and Heinrich Suso, seemed to be constantly Willing the ability of Unwillingness. Perhaps Eckhart is the most profoundly speculatively blunt so much so that he was accused of heresy and brought up before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried as a heretic but died before a verdict. Tauler intern provides neo-platonic richness and logic to this position. Suso’s is to explore the territory through emotion. Suso’s first books , Büchlein der Wahrheit (Little Book of Truth) and Das Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit (The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom) were written in German and structured as instructions and explanations for Beginners as well as a defense and adaptation of Eckharts spiritual views.
Eckhart tells us : “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning”
Likewise Suso writes of himself in his Autobiography “The inward impulse, which he had received 8from God, urged him to turn away entirely from every thing which might be a hindrance to him. The tempter met this with the suggestion:—Bethink thee better. ” (First printed Cologne A.D. 1535.) Suso proceeds to expose the interior to the elements and deals with in good spirit. The Clock of Eternal Wisdom, exhibits not only faith but trust in the unknown, Like Walter Hilton before him, and Thomas à Kempis after him, Suso dwells poetically and thoughtfully on the frustrations and disappointments as well as spiritualising ways of dealing with them by servitude to that which is beyond perception.
Suso Belongs in the Higherarchy of Great books
of internal spiritual quest along with
Boethius, Dante and à Kempis
VD16 S 6103; ISTC is00876500; Goldschmidt p. 135. See Ford BPH 177 (first edition) and 178 (fourth edition). [ McMahon, A. (1910). Blessed Henry Suso. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved April 27, 2022 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/ cathen/07238c.htm%5D
Holdings: GermanyWuppertal StB & RussiaMoscow, [Russian State Library] Rossijskaja Gosudarstvennaja Biblioteka (Berlin copy). Number of holding institutions 2.
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