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The Mirror of Simple Souls

The Mirror of Simple Souls is an early 14th-century work of Christian mysticism by Marguerite Porete dealing with the workings of Divine Love.Love in this book layeth to souls the touches of his divine works privily hid under dark speech, so that they should taste the deeper draughts of his love and drink.

20th-century rediscovery
A 15th-century manuscript of an English translation by "M. N." of The Mirror was found by J. A. Herbert in a manuscript collection purchased for the British Library in 1911; it was shown to Evelyn Underhill. Other 15th-century copies were subsequently found in the Bodleian library and the library of St. John's College, Cambridge, together with a Latin version made in the late 15th century by Richard Methley of Mount Grace, Yorkshire. A printed edition was edited by Clare Kirchberger from those four manuscripts, and published by Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd., publishers to the Holy See, in 1927, complete with a nihil obstat and imprimatur.Introduction to said book: {{cite book The translation by "M. N." included a number of glosses by him and divided the text into divisions and chapters: For the 1927 edition, the mediæval text was used but with spellings updated, and occasional words replaced accompanied by footnotes with additional glosses. ==See also==
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