Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1564 edition of "De imitando Christo" by Thomas à Kempis

Added at 06:26 on 25 July 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1564 edition of "De imitando Christo" (The Imitation of Christ) by German priest & mystic Thomas à Kempis who died #OnThisDay 25 July 1471. This is regarded as the best known Christian book on devotion which, apart from the Bible, has been translated into more languages than any other book - and is the smallest book in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, in which Robert Leighton made many notes in this book - in tiny handwriting for the tiny book!

< Leighton Library has a 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" by John Newton Leighton Library has a first edition of 1680 of "Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester" by Gilbert Burnet >