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The cell of self-knowledge: seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521:

I. A very devout treatise, named Benjamin, of the mights and virtues of a man's soul, and of the way to true contemplation, comp. by ... Richard of Saint Victor.--II. Divers doctrines devout and fruitful, taken out of the life of that glorious virgin and spouse of Our Lord, Saint Katherin of Seenes.--III. A short treatise of contemplation taught by Our Lord Jesus Christ, or taken out of the book of Margery Kempe, ancress of Lynn.--IV. A devout treatise, comp. by Master Walter Hylton, of the song of angels.--V. A devout treatise called the Epistle of prayer.--VI. A very necessary epistle of discretion in stirrings of the soul.--VII. A devout treatise of discerning of spirits, very necessary for ghostly livers · Added t.-p. within ornamental border

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