Four short books of devotional counsel written in the Low Countries around 1420 and copied everywhere. After the Bible it is said to be the most widely translated book in Christendom, and its author did not put his name to it.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Imitation of Christ shares wording with 3 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voiceTractate 13 and Book 4
standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voiceHomily 30 and Book 4
The friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoicethJohn 3 and Book 4
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: William Benham, 1874. Source: Gutenberg 1653.
The text here is William Benham’s translation, 1874, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 1653, set unaltered.
All 114 chapters, each with the heading it was given.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.