CHRISTIANITY
The Imitation of Christ
A devotional manual of the inner life, composed in Latin in the fifteenth century and attributed to Thomas à Kempis. Among the most widely read Christian books outside the Bible itself.
The Imitation of Christ runs to 114 chapters, 578 passages. The whole of it is held here and free to read, searchable by reference or by the words in it.
The edition held here is Benham, in English, in the public domain, from Project Gutenberg.
It sits on the estate's shelf of 106 sacred works, beside the complete Douay-Rheims Bible, an atlas of the places named in scripture, a timeline and a genealogy.