Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Religion series

In this two-volume set published in 1902, the writings of colonial American missionary David Brainerd help detail his life story and religious work amongst the Native Americans. Volume 2 contains Brainerd's journal retelling his missionary work with native peoples, together with correspondence and other religious writing.

This is a two-volume translation by Clement Huart (1854-1926), a leading French Orientalist, of a fourteenth-century Persian text recording the lives of the founders of the order of whirling dervishes. Published in 1918-22, it provides fascinating insights into the origins of this branch of Islamic mysticism.

Containing most of the four Gospels, and Acts, and written during the fifth century, Codex Bezae is one of the most important witnesses to the formation of the Gospels. This 1864 edition by Frederick Scrivener of the parallel Greek and Latin texts, with editorial notes, makes this important manuscript accessible.