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In German. [1880] J.F. Steinkopf (Stuttgart, Germany), 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches tall hardcover, no dust jacket, paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, engraved frontispiece, 280 pp. Slight soiling and moderate to heavy rubbing and edgewear to covers. Prior owner's pencil notations to blank rear free-endpaper and pastedown. Two lines of light purple pencil, partially erased, to title page. Slight marginal staining or creasing to about a dozen pages. A couple of pages with marginal pencil ticks. Otherwise, a nice copy of this scarce issue. OCLC (No. 18807868) locates only three copies at institutions worldwide - at Harvard, Princeton and the Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. ~SP21~ [1.0P] In German. An uncommon edition of German Reformed religious writer Gerhard Tersteegen's 'Kleine Kempis,' in an unusual edit of the sayings into one for every day of the year. Tersteegen (1697-1769) collected short proverbs and quotations from the 'lesser works' of medieval devotional author Thomas a Kempis, together with other inspirational texts intended for young Christian readers. Thomas a Kempis (circa 1380-1471) was an Augustinian monk, priest, copyist and scholar, and the author of 'The Imitation of Christ,' one of the best known Christian devotional works, among many other published writings. He spent most of his long life at Mount Saint Agnes monastery, in the town of Windesheim, located in what is now the Netherlands. He wrote these works for the instruction of novices of his Augustinian monastic order, followers of Geert Groote's Brethren of the Common Life, but over the years they became popular among the faithful worldwide. He authored more than a dozen 'lesser works,' many excerpted here, including 'Prayers and Meditations on the Life of Christ,' 'The Soliloquy of the Soul,' 'The Little Garden of Roses' and 'Valley of Lilies. Seller Inventory # SP21-0491-10501
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