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The oldest book in the collection is a 1474 copy of Vita Christi (The life of Christ) by Ludolph of Saxony in two volumes, acquired in 1963.
In the same university he got his PhD, which was supervised by professor Martí de Riquer, with a thesis about the Vita Christi, which was a work from the medieval Catalan writer Francesc Eiximenis, and the medieval tradition of the Vitae Christi.
Of these, the Vita Christi ("Life of Christ") by Ludolph of Saxony and the Meditations on the Life of Christ by the Pseudo-Bonaventura were two of the most popular from the 14th century onwards.
The De Vita Christi written by Ludolph of Saxony inspired Loyola to abandon his previous worldly life and devote himself to labour for God, following the example of spiritual leaders such as Francis of Assisi.
Besides the Ancrene Wisse, other source texts are the Planctus Mariae (usually ascribed to Bernard of Clairvaux) and the Hours of the Cross from Pseudo-Bonaventura's Vita Christi.