Felip Ribot, The Ten Books on the Way of Life and Great Deeds of the Carmelites (including The Book of the First Monks), edited and translated by Richard Copsey, O.Carm.

Abstract

Felip Ribot’s Ten Books on the Way of Life and Great Deeds of the Carmelites is a key-text for understanding the development of  Carmelite spirituality and identity, though it is not nearly as well known as it deserves because of the lack of a reliable printed edition or anything other than small sections in translation. Paul Chandler’s doctoral thesis, which edits Books IVII, is still unpublished, so one  is dependent for a Latin text on manuscripts or the two sixteenth-century editions, both of which are unreliable. A few short passages  have been edited by modern scholars. Modern translations have tended to be confined to the first few chapters and are in any case  not widely available.