thusian, of Nuremberg, dated 1494, in Danhausser's edition of the
'THOMAS A KEMPIS.
God, and lived and died in the odour of sanctity in the Monastery of Mount St. Jerome at Hulsbergen.*
John, the eldest son, had gone from Kempen to Deventer before the time when we have any information concerning Thomas, and there, under the direction of Gerard Groot, joined the Brotherhood of Common Life.
Thomas, born, as we have stated, about 1380, remained under the care and tuition of his parents,
See Appendix to Rosweyd's Vindicize Kempenses, p. 123. y+ I may enumerate here the principal sources from which I have derived the information embodied in this sketch of the life of Thomas & Kempis :— 1. His own writings, including the Chronicle of Mount St. Agnes.
2. John Busch's Chronicle of Windesheim.
3. An anonymous biographer, nearly contemporary with Thomas a Kempis.
See Appendix to Rosweyd's Vindicize Kempenses ; also Mooren, Nachrichten tiber Thomas 4 Kempis, p. 195.
4. Notice of Thomas 4 Kempis, by George Pirckamer, Carthusian, of Nuremberg, dated 1494, in Danhausser's edition of the works of Thomas 4 Kempis.
Also given in most of Sommalius' editions—-for example, that published by Nut, of Antwerp, 1607.
5. Life of Thomas & Kempis, by Jodocus Badius Ascensius, prefixed to his edition of his works, dated 1520, and later, also given in edition of Sommalius quoted above.
6. Life of Thomas & Kempis, by Franciscus Tolensis (Francis de Backer, sub-prior of Mount St. Agnes), prefixed to his edition of The Imitation, dated 1575 ; also given in Sommalius' edition.
7. Life of Thomas 4 Kempis, by H. Rosweyd, S.J.
See Appendix to his Vindiciz Kempenses.
8. Life of Thomas 4 Kempis, by an anonymous writer (probably Dr. Francis Lee, the author of a work on Montanism), prefixed to the English version of some of & Kempis' works, edited by George
Hickes, D.D., under the title of "The Christian Pattern."
Second edition.
London: 1710. g. Vie de Thomas 4 Kempis, par le Rév. P. M. B. Santyves.
Paris: Victor Sarlit, 1858. to. Mooren.
Nachrichten iiber Thomas 4 Kempis.