KEMPIS, THOMAS À:

De christo imitando liber i-iv. Ex latino in arabicum sermonem versus a P.F. Coelestino a S. Liduina, carmelia discalceato. Recudi curavit Io. Henr. Callenberg. Parts i-iv. Four volumes. Halae 1738-39.

      Pp. (xviii), 96; (iv), 56; (xiv), 218; (50). Part four has no Latin title (maybe missing?). Complete in four volumes, with text in Arabic, parts i-iii have also Latin titles. Bound in beautiful contemporary marbled papers, with different patterns but with matching colours. A lovely set. Thomas À Kempis (1380-1471) resided at the Augustine Monastery of Mount St. Agnes where his was ordained priest in 1414. He became famous for this celebrated devotional treatise "The Imitation of God" which was first published anonymously. It went through numerous editions and translated into many languages. This is a reprint of the Rome 1663 edition with the exception of a few passages about the Roman Catholic cult and of the Latin preface. Callenberg obtained a copy of the original Rome edition and arranged with this reprint. The Arabic translation was prepared by Petrus Golius, brother of the famous Leiden professor Jacob Golius. Schnurrer 288. Zenker BO i, 1597.