Chapter 31
PART I
THE WORKS AND LIVES OF THE MYSTICS 1. Texts. 2. Translations. 3. Biographies and Monographs.
ANONYMOUS WORKS. Texts. Jz Manuscript— The Cloud of Unknowing. The Epistle of Prayer. The Epistle of Private Counsel. The Epistle of Discretion in Stirrings of the Soul. The Treatise of Discerning of Spirits. (All in B.M. Harl. 674 and 2373. Compare in Part II., Gardner, The Cell of Self-Knowledge.) The Mirror of Simple Souls. (B.M. Add. 37,790.) Printed— The Cloud of Unknowing. Edited from B. M. Harl. 674, by E. Under- hill. London, 1912. The Mirror of Simple Souls. Selections, with introduction by E. Underhill. (Porch Series.) London, 1911. AL GHAZZALI. Trans. The Confessions of Al Ghazzali. Translated by Claud Field. (Wisdom of the East Series.) London, 1909. The Alchemy’of Happiness. Translated by Claud Field. (Wisdom ol the East Series.) London, 1910. (See also in Part II Schmolders.) ANGELA OF FOLIGNO, BLESSED. Text. Beate Angele de Fulginio Visionum et Instructionum Liber. (Bibliotheca mystica et ascetica, Part V.) Cologne, 1849. Trans. The Book of Divine Consolations or the Blessed Angela of Foligno Translated by M. Steegmann. With an Introduction by Algar Thorold (New Mediaeval Library.) London, 1908. (See also Part II., Thorold.) _ $63
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AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, SAINT.
Texts.
Trans.
Mon.
Opera Omnia (Migne, Patrologia Latina. t. 37-47.) Paris, 1844.
Confessionum, libri tredecim. Ex recog. P. Knoll. Lipsiz, 1898.
Confessions. Edited by J. Gibb and W. Montgomery. (Cambridge Patristic Texts.) 1908. [Latin text and English notes.]
Works. Edited by Marcus Dods. 15 vols. Edinburgh, 1876.
Works. Translated and annotated by J. E. Pilkington and others. 8 vols. (Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.) London, 1888-92.
The Confessions. Translated by Dr. E. B. Pusey. (Everyman’s Library.) London, 1907.
The Confessions (first nine books only). Translated, with an Introduction, by Dr. C. Bigg. (Library of Devotion.) London, 1898. ,
Hlarnack, A. Augustins Confessionen. Giessen, 1895.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, SAINT.
Text.
Trans.
(Vols. I.
of Songs.)
Mons.
BLAKE, Texts.
Mons.
Opera Omnia. Notis et observationibus J. Mabillon. (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 182-185.) Paris, 1854.
Life and Works of St. Bernard. Edited by Dom J. Mabillon, O.S.B. Translated and edited by S. J. Eales, M.A. 4vols. London, 1889-96.
andII., Letters; III., Letters and Sermons; IV., Sermons on the Song
Cantica Canticorum: Sermons! on the Song of Songs. Translated by S.J. Eales, M.A. London, 1895.
The Song of Songs: Extracts from the Sermons of St. Bernard. Edited by B. Blaxland. (Library of Devotion.) London, 1898. 4)
St. Bernard on the Love of God, &c. Translated by M. and C. Patmore. Second edition. London, 1884.
St. Bernard on Consideration. Translated by G. Lewis. Oxford, 1908.
Suggestions on the Method of Meditation, extracted from St. Bernard’s Scala Claustralium by W. B. Trevelyan. London, 1904.
Morrison, J. Cotter. Life and Times of St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux. Second edition. London, 1868.
Neander, Aug. Der heilige Bernard und seine Zeitalter. Hamburg, — 1848.
(Translation) Life and Times of St. Bernard. Translated by M.
Wrench. London, 1843.
WILLIAM.
Works: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Edited by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats. 3 vols. London, 1893.
Poetical Works: new and verbatim text by J. Sampson. Oxford, 1905.
Blake’s ‘‘ Jerusalem.” Edited by E. R. D. Maclagen and A. G. B. Russell. London, 1904.
Blake’s ‘‘ Milton.” Edited by E. R. D. Maclagen and A. G. B. Russell. London, 1907.
The Letters of William Blake and Life by F. Tatham. Edited by Archibald Russell. London, 1906.
Serger, P. William Blake: Mysticisme et Poésie. Paris, 1907,
De Selincourt, Basil. William Blake: London, 1909. _
Gilehrist, Alexander. Life of William Blake. London, 1880.
Swinburne, A. C. William Blake. London, 1868.
Symons, Arthur. William Blake. London, 1907.
Wicksteed, 7. Blake’s Vision of the Book of Job. Jondon, 1910.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 565
BOEHME, JACOB.
Texts. J. Boehme, Sein Leben und seine theosophischen Werke in geordneten Auszuge mit Einleitungen und Erliuterungen. Allen Christglaubigen dargeboten durch J. Claassen. 3B. Stuttgart, 1885.
Theosophia revelata. Das ist: Alle gottliche Schriften. . . . J. BOhmens.
7 vols. Amsterdam, 1730-31.
Trans. The Works of Jacob Boehme. In 4 vols., with Life of the Author. English translation. London, 1764-81.
(The only collected English edition, but incomplete. All Boehme’s works were translated by Sparrow and others in the seventeenth century, and are now being re-issued. See below. For full bibliography see ‘‘ William Law and the English Mystics,’’ by C. Spurgeon, in ‘‘ Cambridge History of English Literature.”)
The Threefold Life of Man. With an Introduction by the Rev. G. W Allen. London, 1909.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence. With an Introduction by Dr. Paul Deussen. London, IgIo.
The Forty Questions of the Soul and the Clavis. London, 1911.
The Way to Christ. London, 1912.
Treatises of Jacob Boehme. London, 1769.
Dialogues on the Supersensual Life. Edited, with an Introduction, by Bernard Holland. London, rgot.
The Signatures of All Things, (Everyman’s Library.) London, 1912.
The Epistles of Jacob Boehme, reprinted from the 1689 edition. 1886.
Mons. Memoirs of the life, death, burial, and wonderful writings of J. Behmen.
Now first done at large into English from the original German. With preface by J. Okeley. Northampton, 1780.
Boutroux, &. Le Philosophe Allemand, Jacob Boehme. Paris, 1888.
Hartmann, F. The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme. London, 1891.
Martensen, H. L. Jakob Bohme. Theosophische Studien. Grafen- hainichen, 1882.
(Translation) Jacob Behmen: His life and teaching. London, 1885.
Taylor, Edward. J. Behmen’s theosophick philosophy unfolded, 1691.
Whyte, Rev. Alexander. Jacob Bohme: an Appreciation. Edinburgh,
1894.
BONAVENTURA, SAINT. Text. Opera Omnia. Editae a P.P. Collegii S. Bonaventurae. 10 t. Ad Claras Aquas 1882-1902. Trans. Théologie Séraphique, extraite et traduite par C. et A. Alix. 2 vols. (Text and Translation.) Paris, 1853. Les six Ailes du Seraphin. Paris, 1860. (There are no English translations. The ‘‘ Soliloquies” attributed to Bonaventura are not authentic. For his life of St. Francis, wzde zzfra, Francis of Assisi, St.) Mons. Sollea, B. L. C. 1 mysticismo di S. Bonaventura studiato nelle sue antecedenza e nelle sue esplicazione. Torino, Igo1. Lutz, E. Die Psychologie Bonaventuras nach den quellen dargestellt. (Beitrage zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters.) Munster,
1909. BOURIGNAN, ANTOINETTE.
Text. (Euvres. I9 tomes. Amsterdam, 1686. Mons. Anon. An Apology for Mrs. Antonia Bourignan. London, 1699.
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Cockburn, J. Bourignianism Detected: or, the Delusions and Errors of Antonia Bourignan and her growing Sect. London, 1698.
MacEwen, A. R. Antoinette Bourignan, Quietist. London, I9g1o.
Von der Linde, A. Antoinette Bourignan, das Licht der Welt. Leyden,
1895. CATHERINE OF GENOA, SAINT. Texts. Vita Mirabile e dottrina celeste di Santa Caterina da Genova, insieme col Trattato del Purgatorio e col Dialogo della Santa. 1743. Dialogo di S. Caterina da Genova. Milano, 1882. (The authenticity of this dialogue is denied by Von Fliigel.) Trans. The Treatise on Purgatory. With a preface by Cardinal Manning. London, 1858. La Vie et les GEuvres de Ste. Catherine de Génes, traduits par le Vicomte de Bussierre. Paris, 1860. Mon. Vadllebona, S. La Perla dei Fieschi. Genova, 1887. (See also Pt. II., Von Hiigel, for the best modern account of this mystic.) CATHERINE OF SIENA, SAINT. Texts. S. Catherinae Senensis Vitae. Auctore Fr. Raimundo Capuano. Acta S.S. Aprilis. T. III. Paris and Rome, 1860. L'Opere della Seraphica Santa Caterina da Siena, Lucca, 1721. (Life, works, dialogue, and letters.) Le lettere di S. Caterina da Siena. Edited by N. Tommaseo. 4 vols. Firenze, 1860. Trans. The Divine Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena. Translated by Algar Thorold. London, 18906. St. Catherine of Siena as seen in her Letters. Edited by Vida Scudder. London, 1905. Mons. Drane, A. 7. The History of St. Catherine of Siena and her Com- panions. 2vols. London, 1887. Gardner, Edmund. St. Catherine of Siena. London, 1907. (By far the best modern biography.) Mignaty, M.A. Catherine de Sienne. Paris, 1886. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. Text. Opera Omnia. Recog. R. Klotz. 4 vols. Lipsic, 1831-34. _ Trans. Writings, translated by W. Wilson. 2 vols. Edinburgh. 1867-69. Mons. De Faye. Clément d’Alexandrie. Paris, 1898. Wagner. Der Christ und die Welt nach Clemens von Alexandrien. Gottingen, 1903. DANTE. Texts. Tutte le Opere. Rived. nel testo da Dr. E. Moore. Oxford. 1894. La Divina Commedia. I] testo Wittiano rived. da Toynbee. London, | 1900. Text and The Hell of Dante. Edited, with Translation and Notes, by A. J. Butler. Trans. | London, 1892. ‘ The Purgatory. London, 1880. The Paradise. London, 1885. The Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Text, with translation by Carlyle, Okey, and Wicksteed. (Temple Classics.) 3 vols. London, 1900. _ Vernon, W. W. Readings on the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; chiefly based on the Commentary of Benvenuto da Imola. 6 vols. London, 1894-1900. (Text, translation, and full commentary.)
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Minor The Convivio of Dante, translated by P. H. Wicksteed. (Temple works. Classics.) London. 1903. Dante’s Convivio. Translated by W. W. Jackson. Oxford, 1909. Dante’s Eleven Letters. Translated, with Notes, &c., by C. S. Latham. Boston, 1902. A Translation of Dante’s Latin Works. (Temple Classics.) London, 1896. The New Life. Translated by D. G. Rossetti. (The Siddal Edition.) London, 1899. Mons. Saratono, A. Dante e la Visione di Dio. 1909. Barelli, V. L’Allegoria della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Firenze, 1864. Bonanni, T. I Cantico al Sole di S. Francesco d’ Assisi comentato nella Divina Commedia. Aquila. 1890. Capetti, V. L’Animae Varte di Dante. 1907. Carroll, Rev. J. S. Exiles of Eternity: an Exposition of Dante’s Inferno. London, 1903. Prisoners of Hope: an Exposition of Dante’s Purgatorio. London,
1906.
Fardel, M.D. la Personne de Dante dans la Divine Comédie: étude
psychologique. Paris, 1894.
Ciuffo,G. La visione ultima della Vita Nuova. 1899.
Gardner, Edmund. MDante’s Ten Heavens. London, 1898.
Dante and the Mystics. London, 1913.
—— A Dante Primer. Third Edition. London, 1993.
Guiliozaz, C. Dante e il Simbolismo. 1900.
Hettinger, Franz. Dante’s Divina Commedia, its Scope and Value.
Translated and edited by Rev. H. S. Bowden. London, 1887.
Perez, Paolo. 1 Sette Cerchi del Purgatorio di Dante, Saggio di Studi.
Third edition. Milano, 1896.
Wicksteed, Rev. P. H. Dante: Six Sermons. Second edition.
London, 1890.
Dante and Aquinas. London, 1913.
(I select from the mass of Dante literature a few books useful to the student of mysticism. For full bibliographies see the works of Vernon and Gardner, above cited.) DENIS THE CARTHUSIAN.
Texts. Doctoris Ecstatici D. Dionysii Cartusiani opera omnia in unum corpus
digesta. Cura et labore monachorum S. Ordinis Cartusiensis. (In progress.) Monstrolii, 1896.
