The Sculptures In The Lady Chapel At Ely

Excerpt from The Sculptures in the Lady Chapel at Ely <p>N 0 survey of early Christian literature that aims at completeness can omit some notice of what are called the Apoayp/m/ Gosfiels and their congeners, be the latter Acts, Apocalypses, or Epistles. The object with which these books were written was generally a twofold one: to supply information about historical matters not treated of in Canonical writings, and to inculcate doctrines orthodox or unorthodox (usually the latter) for which the writer was anxious to obtain a favourable reception. The cases in which these uncanonical books can be considered to preserve true and authentic historical traditions are exceedingly few. In the main they are fictions, sometimes innocent and sometimes not. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.