Porete, Marguerite, approximately 1250-1310. Miroir des simples âmes (Personal Name)

Her Le miroir des âmes simples et anéanties et qui seulement demeurent en vouloir et désir d'amour, c1984.

Her Latin & French. Margaretae Porete Speculum simplicium animarum, 1986: p. facing t.p. (Le mirouer des simples âmes) introd. (late medieval devotional book in French whose author was unknown until 1946 when identified as work of Marguerite Porete, burned in 1310 as relapsed heretic; only one ms. of original French text survives, ms. XIV F 26 (formerly 986) in Musée Condé, Chantilly; commonly known as Le miroir des simples âmes)

Leclercq, J. The spirituality of the Middle Ages, c1968: p. 356 (a treatise long considered the anon. work of a French or Flemish writer of the late 13th cent. and known only in its English version, The Mirror of simple souls; now attributed to Marguerite Porete; the French orig. (as yet unpublished) has recently come to light in ms. Chantilly, Musée Condé 986)

New Cath. encyc.; GDEL; Dict. des lettres franç., le Moyen Age, 1964.