THE GOLDEN LEGEND: VOLUME 2
JACOBUS DE VORAGINE
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ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-434-8
The Golden Legend Paperback Editions:
Volume 1: 978-1-78379-436-2
Volume 2: 978-1-78379-437-9
Volume 3: 978-1-78379-438-6
The Golden Legend is a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that became a late medieval bestseller. This collection of about 170 lives of the Saints used to be the most read book all over the Ages of Faith, second only to the Holy Bible. It is without doubt one of the all-time Catholic classics, of immense unction, and is the basis of much iconography. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived. It used to be likely compiled around the year 1260, even though the text used to be added to over the centuries. First of all entitled Readings of the Saints, it gained its popularity under the title by which it’s best known. Over eight hundred manuscript copies of the work continue to exist, and when printing used to be invented in the 1450s, editions seemed quickly, not only in Latin, but also in each and every major European language. Caxton’s version seemed in 1483 and his translation used to be reprinted, reaching a ninth edition in 1527. In 1900, the Caxton version used to be translated by Frederick Startridge Ellis.
PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING