The Golden Legend

Jacobus de Voragine

Original title: Legenda aurea

earliest edition we have, 1969 Honoré Champion, 1997 1563 pages

Textes de la Renaissance,

"Among the books which afford us an insight into the popular religious thought of the middle ages, none holds a more important place than the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend. The book was compiled and put into form about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, who laid under contribution for his purpose the Lives of the Fathers by S. Jerome, the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, and other books of...

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William Granger Ryan 3 printings we hold · 1995 · Princeton University Press

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Editions we hold

Legenda aurea edition · 2014 · Herder · 2447 pages · 9783451312229
Legenda aurea edition · 2007 · SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo · 9788884502452
Gilte legende. edition · 2007 · Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press · 1036 pages · 9780199234394
Gilte legende edition · 2006 · Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press · 9780199205776
La légende dorée edition · 2004 · Gallimard · 1549 pages
Legenda aurea edition · 2000 · Le lettere
The golden legend edition · 1998 · Penguin Books · 382 pages
Legenda aurea edition · 1998 · SISMEL · 1366 pages
La légende dorée edition · 1997 · Honoré Champion · 1563 pages
The Golden Legend paperback · 1995 · Princeton University Press · 410 pages · 9780691001531
The Golden Legend paperback · 1995 · Princeton University Press · 820 pages · 9780691001623
Legenda aurea edition · 1995 · G.Einaudi · 1124 pages

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