The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1101–1200
4 works
c. 1121–1128
Latin
Consuetudines
Guigo I · 1083–1136
The written form of Carthusian life: the cell, the hair shirt, the weekly walk, the books each monk is lent, and the instruction to copy manuscripts as preaching with the hands.
c. 1125–1136
Latin
Guigo I · 1083–1136
Private notes of extraordinary bleakness and precision on self-deception, on wanting to be thought good, and on the difference between loving God and loving one's feelings about God.
c. 1144
Latin
William of Saint-Thierry · c. 1085–1148
A letter to the Carthusians of Mont-Dieu tracing the ascent from the animal state through the rational to the spiritual, where the soul loves as it is loved.
c. 1150–1173
Latin
Scala Claustralium
Guigo II · d. 1188
Four rungs — reading, meditation, prayer, contemplation — described with a domestic image: reading puts food in the mouth, meditation chews it, prayer finds the flavour.
1301–1400
1 work
1368
Latin
Statuta Antiqua
The Carthusian Order
The consolidated law of the Carthusian order, codifying the customs of two and a half centuries into a single body of statutes.
1401–1500
2 works
c. 1430–1471
Latin
Denys the Carthusian · 1402–1471
Commentaries on the whole Bible, on Dionysius, on Peter Lombard, plus treatises on contemplation, on death, and on reform — filling forty-two printed volumes.
c. 1450–1465
Latin
Denys the Carthusian · 1402–1471
A verse-by-verse commentary gathering the whole patristic and scholastic tradition on the psalter and adding a contemplative application to each psalm.
7 of 1774 works