——De Handschriften van Jan van Ruusbroec’s Werken. 2 vols. (Gent, 1900).
An important and scholarly study of the manuscript sources by the greatest living authority.
Notices of Ruysbroeck will be found in the following works:—
Auger, A.—Étude sur les Mystiques des Pays Bas au Moyen Age (Académie Royale de Belgique, vol. xlvi., 1892).
Fleming, W. K.—Mysticism in Christianity (London, 1913).
Inge, Very Rev. W. R., D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s.—Christian Mysticism (London, 1899).
Jones, Dr. Rufus M.—Studies in Mystical Religion (London, 1909).
Applications of his doctrine to the spiritual life in:—
Baker, Venerable Augustin.—Holy Wisdom; or Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation (London, 1908).
Blosius, F. V.—Book of Spiritual Instruction (London, 1900); A Mirror for Monks (London, 1901); Comfort for the Faint-hearted (London, 1903); Sanctuary of the Faithful Soul (London, 1905).
Denis the Carthusian.—Opera Omnia (Monstrolii, 1896), in progress.
Petersen, Gerlac.—The Fiery Soliloquy with God (London, 1872).
Poulain, Aug., S.J.—The Graces of Interior Prayer (London, 1910).
Underhill, E.—Mysticism, 5th ed. (London, 1914).
Influences
Much light is thrown on Ruysbroeck’s doctrine by a study of the authors who influenced him; especially:
St. Augustine; Migne, P.L., xxvii.-xlvii.; Eng. Trans., edited by M. Dods (Edinburgh, 1876).
Dionysius the Areopagite; Migne, P.G., iii., iv.; Eng. Trans., by Parker (Oxford, 1897).
Hugh and Richard of St. Victor; Migne, P.L., clxxv.-clxxvii. and cxcvi.
St. Bernard; Migne, P.L., clxxxii.-clxxxv.; Eng. Trans., by Eales (London, 1889-96).
St. Thomas Aquinas; Opera (Romæ, 1882-1906); Eng. Trans., by the Dominican Fathers (in progress).
St. Bonaventura; Opera (Paris, 1864-71).
Meister Eckhart; Schriften und Predigten (Leipzig, 1903).
Suso; Schriften, ed. Denifle (Munich, 1876). Eng. Trans., Life, ed. by W. R. Inge (London, 1913); Book of Eternal Wisdom (London, 1910).
Tauler, Predigten (Prague, 1872); Eng. Trans., Twenty-five Sermons, trans. by Winkworth (London, 1906); The Inner Way, edited by A. W. Hutton (London, 1909).