This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... (Harley, 330 f. 12db) of the Scala Perfectionis--a Latin version by a Carmelite, Thomas Fishlake, from the original English, and it concludes with the statement that the work was by Walter Hilton, Canon of Thurgarton, who died on March 24, 1395-6. The other is a late Cambridge manuscript of the same ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... (Harley, 330 f. 12db) of the Scala Perfectionis--a Latin version by a Carmelite, Thomas Fishlake, from the original English, and it concludes with the statement that the work was by Walter Hilton, Canon of Thurgarton, who died on March 24, 1395-6. The other is a late Cambridge manuscript of the same work, which concludes: "explicit libellus magistri Walteri Hilton Canonici de Thurgarton qui obiit anno domini Mcccxcv decimo kalendas Aprilis circa solis occasum." If any further evidence is wanted to show that this is the probable date of his death it is to be found in the fact that Adam Horsley, to whom Hilton addressed his work in praise of the Carthusian order, was an officer of the Great Exchequer, and was employed in the county of Gloucester in the year 1370.1 The date of Hilton's death excludes the explanation that he translated the Imitation. He died when Thomas a Kempis was fifteen years of age. The questions that have to be consideredare these: How are we to explain the fact of a persistent English tradition that Hilton was the author of the Imitation, the fact that the greatest English bibliophiles of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries were absolutely satisfied that he was the author, the fact that among the list of Hilton's works there always occurs a work entitled Ecclesiastica Musica, which is identical with the first three books of the Imitation, that this title is exclusively English and appears in no printed edition of the fifteenth century and in only one Continental manuscript quod sciam, and that manuscripts so entitled occur frequently in England? First, we must consider the English literary authorities that support Hilton. Charles Hatton's letter and the Oxford letter of 1706-7 give us the following data: Petrius, ...
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Acceptable. London: Methuen & Co., 1907. 2nd edition. 8vo. xxiii, 312pp. Illus. Good book. Ex-library. Book rebound in half leather binding. Spine ends and joints worn. Boards edgeworn, corners frayed. Library markings--shelfmark, bookplate, etc. --have mostly been removed; bar code and card pocket remain on rear endpapers. Inquire if you need further information.
