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Author Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Uniform Title Legenda aurea. English
Title Here begynneth the legende named in latyn legenda aurea, that is to say in englyshe the golden legende ...
Alternative Title Legenda aurea.
Golden legende.
Varyed in many and dyuers places, and also many hystoryes were comprysed in ye two other bookes.
Varyed in many and dyvers places, and also many hystoryes were comprysed in ye two other bookes.
Publication Info [Westminster : Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1493 (20 May)]



Descript [4], xli, xl-CClix, CClxi-CCCxl, CCCxl-CCCCxxix leaves : ill. (woodcuts)
Note A translation of: Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea.
Translation, probably by William Caxton, based in part on the French translation of Jean de Vignay.
"This is the only ed[ition]. to omit the stories from the Bible"--STC.
Title from opening words of text.
Colophon reads: T¹⁵hus endeth the lege[n]de named in latyn legenda aurea .. whiche werke I dyde accomplisshed [sic] at the commaundeme[n]te and requeste of the noble and puyssaunte erle· [and] my specyal good lord wyllyam erle of Arondel, and now hane [sic] renewed [and] fynysshed it at westmestre the xx day of May, the yere of our lord MCCCClxxxxiii, and in the viii yere of the reygne off kynge Henry the vii, by me wyllyam Caxton,.
Actual printer's name from STC.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-e F² f-z [et] [con] ē⁴ A-Y 2a-2e 2f⁶ 2g⁴.
Secundo folio: varyed in many [and] dyuers places, [and] also many hystoryes were co[m]prysed in ye two other bookes ..
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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Author Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Christian saints -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491.
Alternative Title Legenda aurea.
Golden legende.
Varyed in many and dyuers places, and also many hystoryes were comprysed in ye two other bookes.
Varyed in many and dyvers places, and also many hystoryes were comprysed in ye two other bookes.
Descript [4], xli, xl-CClix, CClxi-CCCxl, CCCxl-CCCCxxix leaves : ill. (woodcuts)
Note A translation of: Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea.
Translation, probably by William Caxton, based in part on the French translation of Jean de Vignay.
"This is the only ed[ition]. to omit the stories from the Bible"--STC.
Title from opening words of text.
Colophon reads: T¹⁵hus endeth the lege[n]de named in latyn legenda aurea .. whiche werke I dyde accomplisshed [sic] at the commaundeme[n]te and requeste of the noble and puyssaunte erle· [and] my specyal good lord wyllyam erle of Arondel, and now hane [sic] renewed [and] fynysshed it at westmestre the xx day of May, the yere of our lord MCCCClxxxxiii, and in the viii yere of the reygne off kynge Henry the vii, by me wyllyam Caxton,.
Actual printer's name from STC.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-e F² f-z [et] [con] ē⁴ A-Y 2a-2e 2f⁶ 2g⁴.
Secundo folio: varyed in many [and] dyuers places, [and] also many hystoryes were co[m]prysed in ye two other bookes ..
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Author Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Christian saints -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491.
Alternative Title Legenda aurea.
Golden legende.
Varyed in many and dyuers places, and also many hystoryes were comprysed in ye two other bookes.
Varyed in many and dyvers places, and also many hystoryes were comprysed in ye two other bookes.

Subject Christian saints -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [4], xli, xl-CClix, CClxi-CCCxl, CCCxl-CCCCxxix leaves : ill. (woodcuts)
Note A translation of: Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea.
Translation, probably by William Caxton, based in part on the French translation of Jean de Vignay.
"This is the only ed[ition]. to omit the stories from the Bible"--STC.
Title from opening words of text.
Colophon reads: T¹⁵hus endeth the lege[n]de named in latyn legenda aurea .. whiche werke I dyde accomplisshed [sic] at the commaundeme[n]te and requeste of the noble and puyssaunte erle· [and] my specyal good lord wyllyam erle of Arondel, and now hane [sic] renewed [and] fynysshed it at westmestre the xx day of May, the yere of our lord MCCCClxxxxiii, and in the viii yere of the reygne off kynge Henry the vii, by me wyllyam Caxton,.
Actual printer's name from STC.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-e F² f-z [et] [con] ē⁴ A-Y 2a-2e 2f⁶ 2g⁴.
Secundo folio: varyed in many [and] dyuers places, [and] also many hystoryes were co[m]prysed in ye two other bookes ..
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Alt author Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491.

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