Legenda aurea

aka Legenda sanctorum

Golden Legend

Author

Jacobus de Voragine

Language

Medieval Latin

Year

1298

Country

Italy

Genre

Biography / Memoir / Reportage

medieval europe

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The Golden Legend is a collection of 153 hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in Europe during the Late Middle Ages. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived. It was probably compiled around 1259 to 1266, although the text was added to over the centuries.