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    By Father Augustine Baker; Don Justin McCann
    London   Burns Oates and Washbourne, LTD.
    7.5" by 5" lii, 496pp
    An important Middle Ages work on contemplative prayer, an anonymously written guide first written in the fourteenth century.
    By Father Augustine Baker; Don Justin McCann

    1941 The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Treatises

    London   Burns Oates and Washbourne, LTD.
    7.5" by 5" lii, 496pp
    An important Middle Ages work on contemplative prayer, an anonymously written guide first written in the fourteenth century.
    £90.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 901P31
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    'The Cloud of Unknowing' is a volume of Christian mysticism, written in Middle English during the latter half of the fourteenth century.

    This is an important spiritual guide on contemplative prayer, giving an insight into religious beliefs and practice in the Middle Ages.

    With a commentary by the Benedictine mystic Augustine Baker, and edited by Abbot Justin McCann.

    The third edition to be published by Burns Oates and Washbourne.

    Bound without the front endpaper.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine, including a small damp stain to the fore edge of the front board. Spine is faded. Bound without the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

    Very Good

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