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in unpubl. MSS. — J. Bosch, d. 1479: Liher de viris ilhistrihus, a collection of 24 biographies of Windesheim brethren, Antwerp, 1621 ; also Chronicon Windeshemense, Antwerp, 1621, both ed. by Grube, Halle, 1886. — G. H. M. Delpkat : Verhandeling over de broederschap van Geert Groote en over den involoed der fraterhuizen, Arnheim, etc., 1856. — J. G. R. Acquoy (prof, in Leyden) : Gerhardi Magni epistolm XIV., Antwerp, 1857. — G. Bonet- Maury : Gerhard de Groot d'apres des documents inedites, Paris, 1878. — * G. Kettle WELL : Thomas a Kempis and the Brothers of the Common Life, 2 vols.. New York, 1882. — * K. Grube: Johannes Busch, Augustinerpropst in Hildesheim. Ein kathol. Eeformator im 15ten Jahrh., Freiburg, 1881. Also G. Gi'oote und seine Stifttingen, Cologne, 1883. — R. Langenbero : Quellen und Forschimgen, etc., Bonn, 1902. — Boerner : Die Annalen xind Akten der Briider des Gemeinsamen Lebens im Lichtenhofe zu Hildesheim, eine Grundlage der Gesch. d. dexitschen Bruderhiluser und ein Beitrag zur Vorgesch. der Reformation, Fiirstenwalde, 1905. — The artt. by K. Hirsche in Herzog, 2d ed., 11. 678-760, and L. Schulze, Herzog, 3d ed.. III., 474- 507, and P. A. Thijm in Wetzer-Welte, V. 1286-1289.— Ullmann: Reformatoren, II. 1-201. — Lea: Inquisition, II. 360 sqq. — Uhlhorn : Christl. Liebesthdtigkeit im M.A., Stuttgart, 1884, pp. 350-375.
Note. — A few of the short writings of Groote were preserved by Thomas k Kempis. To the sermons edited by Acquoy, Langenberg, pp. 3-33, has added Groote's tract on simony, which he found in the convent of Frenswegen, near Nordhorn. He has also found Groote's Latin writings. The tract on simony — de simonia ad Beguttas — is addressed to the Beguines in answer to the question propounded to him by some of their number as to whether it was simony to purchase a place in a Beguine convent. The author says that simony "prevails very much everywhere," and that it was not punished by the Church. He declares it to be simony to purchase a place which involves spiritual exercises, and he goes on to apply the principle to civil offices, pronouncing it simony when they are bought for money. The work is written in Low German, heavy in style, but interesting for the light it throws on practices current at that time.
For § 35. The Imitation of Christ. — Edd. of k Kempis' works, Utrecht, 1473 (15 writings, and omitting the Imitation of Christ) ; Niirnberg, 1494 (20 writings), ed. by J. Badius, 1520, 1521, 1523; Pari.s, 1549; Antwerp, 1574; Dillingen, 1576 ; ed. by H. Sommalius, 3 vols., Antwerp, 1599, 3d ed. 1615 ; ed. by M. J. Pohl, 8 vols, promised ; thus far 5 vols., Freiburg im Br., 1903 sqq. Best and only complete ed. — Thomas X Kempis' hymns in Blume and Dreves: Analecta hymnica, XLVIII. pp. 475-514. — For biograph. and critical accounts. — Jon. Busch: Chron. Windesemense. — H. Ros- WEYDE : Chron. Mt. S. Agnetis, Antwerp, 1615, and cum Bosxoeydii vindiciis Kempensibus, 1622. — J. B. Malou: Bechercheshistoriq. et critiq. sur le veritable auteur du livre de VImitat. de Jesus Chr., Tournay, 1848 ; 3d ed., Paris, 1858. — * K. Hirsche : Frologomena zu einer neuen Ausgabe de imitat. Chr. (with a copy of the Latin text of the MS. dated 1441), Berlin, 1873, 1883, 1894. — C. WoLFSGRUBER : Giovanni Gersen sein Leben und sein Werk de Imitat. Chr., Augsburg, 1880. —*S. Kettlewell : Th. a Kempis and the Brothers of the Common Life, 2 vols., London, 1882. Also Authorship of
236 THE MIDDLE AGES. A.D. 1294-1517.
the de imitat. Chr., London, 1877, 2d ed., 1884. —F. R. Cruise: Th. a Kempls, with JVott'S of a visit to the scenes in which his life icas spent, with some account of the examination of his relics, London, 1887. — L. A. Wheatley : Story of the Imitat. of Chr., London, 1891. — Dom Vincent Scully : Life of the Venerable Th. a Kempis, London, 1901. — J. E. G. De Montmorency : Th. a Kempis, His Age and Book, London, 1906. — * C. Bigg in Wayside Sketches in Eccles. Hist., London, 1906, pp. 134-154. — D. B. Butler, Thos. a Kempis, a Bel. Study, London, 1908. — Art. Thos. a Kempis in London Quarterly Beview, April, 1908, pp. 254-263.
First printed ed. of the Latin text of tlie Imitat. of Christ, Augsburg, 1472. Bound up witli Jerome's de viris illust. and writings of Augustine and Th. Acjuinas. — Of the many edd. in P>iigl. the first was by W. Atkynson, and Margaret, mother of Henry VII., London, 1502, reprinted London, 1828, new ed. by J. K. Ingram, London, 1893. — The Imitat. of Chr., being the autograph MS. of Th. « Kempis de Imitat. Chr. reproduced in facsimile from the orig. in the royal libr. at Brussels. With Introd. by C. Ruelens, London, 1879. — The Imitat. of Chr. Noio for the first time set forth in Bhythm and Sentences. With Pref. by Canon Liddon, London, 1889. — Facsimile Beprodxiction of the 1st ed. of 1471, with Hist. Introd. by C. Knox-Little, London, 1894. — The Imitat. of C/ir., trans, by Canon W. Benham, with 12 photogravures after celebrated paintings, London, 1905. — An ed. issued 1881 contains a Pref. by Dean Farrar. — R. P. A. de Backer : Essai bibliograph. sur le livre de imitat. Chr., Li^ge, 1864. — For further lit. on the Imitat. of Chr., see the Note at the end of § 35.