The legende, named in Latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in Englysshe The golden legende

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298, Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, translator, Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?, printer, Kempe, William, former owner, Hales, Henry, former owner · 1527 · Imprynted at London in Flete Strete at the sygne of the Sonne : By Wynkyn de Worde · 25 pictures

The Golden Legend is a 1527 illustrated book of saints' lives compiled by Jacobus de Voragine and translated by William Caxton, printed in London by Wynkyn de Worde for devotional readers. Its woodcuts show crowned rulers, mitred bishops and saints with crosiers, staves and books, set in narrow framed blocks beside dense blackletter columns, offering a designer ready models for ecclesiastical figures and medieval page layout.

Bible · Christian saints · Saints

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