About The Imitation of Christ

by Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471

CCEL Edition v1.06


In preparing this edition of The Imitation of Christ, the aim was to achieve a simple, readable text which would ring true to those who are already lovers of this incomparable book and would attract others to it.

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The Imitation of Christ

Information on the Book

Copyright: Public Domain

CCEL Identifier: ccel/kempis/imitation/1.06

How to Reference This Edition: Wheaton, IL: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 1998-12-10, v1.06, URL http://ccel.wheaton.edu/k/kempis/imitation2/About.htm

First Published:ca. 1400

Pub History:

This book had been published in over 6000 editions by 1900 -- more than one per month for 500 years. It has been called the most-published of all books other than the Bible.

Comments:A copyright renewal search did not find record of copyright renewal for the source edition of this text.

Information on the Print Source

Published:Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, c1940.

Copy Location:Book in private collection of Harry Plantinga.

Information on the Electronic Edition

Editorial Comments:Unambiguous end-of-line hyphens removed.

Revision History: v1.06, 1999-01-26, updated for voyager/xml, dtd0.992 v1.05, 1998-12-31, updated for template 0.99 v1.02, 1998-09-22, updated for template v0.97 and validated v1.01, 1998-08-19, updated for template v0.93 v1.0, 1998-08-03, Initial ThML version Original, 1994

Status: Preliminary released version has been proofread and is pretty clean. Names and scripture references have been marked, but only token index entries added. Uses a preliminary version of ThML; subject to change.

Dublin Core Record

ElementSchemeContent
DC.Title.MainThe Imitation of Christ
DC.Title.AlternativeImitatio Christi. English.
DC.CreatorThomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471
DC.Creator.AlternativeKempis, Thomas à
DC.SubjectLCSHMeditations.
DC.SubjectCCELClassics; Mysticism; Roman Catholic; Recommended
DC.Description In preparing this edition of The Imitation of Christ, the aim was to achieve a simple, readable text which would ring true to those who are already lovers of this incomparable book and would attract others to it.
DC.PublisherWheaton, IL: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
DC.Publisher.AddressURLmailto:ccel@wheaton.edu
DC.PublisherCCELCCEL
DC.Contributor.TranscriberCCELwhp
DC.Date.CreatedISO86011998-12-10
DC.TypeText.Monograph
DC.FormatIMTtext/html
DC.IdentifierCCELccel/kempis/imitation.htm
DC.Identifierhttp://ccel.wheaton.edu/k/kempis/imitation2/About.htm
DC.SubjectLCCSBV4821.A1 1949
DC.SubjectDDC241.1
DC.SourcePrint editionProject Gutenberg
DC.SourcePublishedMilwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, c1940.
DC.LanguageISO639-1en
DC.RightsPublic Domain

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