File 0225-06 - Golden Legend leaves

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Golden Legend leaves

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CA MRUASC C0001-0225-06

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  • 1527 (Creation)

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5 leaves : some ill. ; 18 x 26 cm

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File contains five leaves from Wynkyn de Worde's English edition of the Golden Legend (Legenda aurea), Jacobus de Voragine's popular collection of hagiographies, or the lives, deeds, and martyrdoms of the saints. De Worde was a famous early English printer and an apprentice and later successor to England's most famous printer, William Caxton. Most leaves relate to the lives of English saints. Some leaves are illustrated with woodcuts, and a number have been expurgated, with references to the pope, certain saints, and illustrations deliberately crossed out, likely reflecting changing attitudes to the papacy and the cult of saints during the English Reformation.

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A complete digital version of William Caxton's 1483 edition of the Golden Legend (on which De Worde's 1527 edition was based) is available through Fordham University's "Medieval Sourcebook: The Golden Legend (Aurea Legenda) - Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, 1275 - Englished by William Caxton, 1483" at https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/goldenlegend/

A digitized version of an edition of The Golden Legend published in 1914 is also available through the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/goldenlegendlive00jaco/page/n7/mode/2up

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Created January 27, 2020 By SD.

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