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100 0 Jacobus,|cde Voragine,|dapproximately 1229-1298,|eauthor.
240 10 Legenda aurea.|lEnglish.|f1483
245 00 Caxton's golden legend.|nVolume 1,|pTemporale /|cedited by
Mayumi Taguchi, John Scahill and Satoko Tokunaga.
264 1 Oxford :|bOxford University Press,|c2020.
264 4 |c©2020
300 lxxxviii, 236 pages, [1] unnumbered leaf of plates :
|billustrations ;|c23 cm.
336 text|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|2rdamedia
338 volume|2rdacarrier
490 1 Early English Text Society O.S. ;|v355
500 Translation of: Legenda aurea.
505 0 Introduction: I, Caxton's Golden Legend and its Sources --
II, Language -- III, Printings of the Golden Legend -- IV,
Edition Description -- V, Copy Descriptions -- VI,
Editorial Procedures -- Select Bibliography ; Caxton's
Golden Legend: 1, Advent -- 2, Nativity -- 3, Circumcision
-- 4, Epiphany -- 5, Septuagesima -- 6, Sexagesima -- 7,
Quinquagesima -- 8, Quadragesima -- 9, Ember Days -- 10,
Passion -- 11, Resurrection -- 12, Litanies -- 13,
Ascension -- 14, Pentecost -- 15, Corpus Christi -- 16,
Dedication of the Church -- Appendix -- Notes on the Text
– Glossary.
520 8 This is volume 1 of the first scholarly edition of the
"Golden Legend", the largest and most elaborate production
of the first printer in English, William Caxton. It is an
English translation of Jacobus de Voragine's "Legenda
aurea" (ca. 1267), a collection of legends for the feasts
of saints (the "Sanctorale"?) and other major days of the
liturgical year (the "Temporale"). The "Legenda aurea" was
one of the most popular and influential books in the later
medieval Western world; it circulated widely, and was
repeatedly translated into many vernacular languages. This
volume reproduces Caxton's original text of the
"Temporale" with modern punctuation and capitalization,
notes on content, syntax and lexis, a detailed glossary,
and an index of proper names. Caxton's complex combination
of sources is given particular attention: the principal
one was a little-known reworking of the French translation
made by Jean de Vignay, but he also used the Latin
original and a previous English translation, the "Gilte
Legende", and made some personal additions. The
Introduction considers the structure of the entire book
that Caxton created, but focuses on the Temporale and the
set of Old Testament legends that will follow in volume 2.
It discusses their sources and language, highlighting the
differences between the first two volumes and the notable
number of new words and senses. It also gives a detailed
bibliographic account of this printing in its historical
context and descriptions of all surviving copies.
546 Text is in Middle English; Introduction, commentary and
bibliographical in modern English.
600 00 Jacobus,|cde Voragine,|dapproximately 1229-1298.|tLegenda
aurea.
600 10 Caxton, William,|dapproximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
650 0 Printing|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory.
650 0 Printing|zEngland|xHistory|xOrigin and antecedents.
650 0 Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
|vTranslations into English.
650 0 Christian saints|vBiography|vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 Christian saints|vLegends|vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 Taguchi, Mayumi,|eeditor.
700 1 Scahill, John,|eeditor.
700 1 Tokunaga, Satoko,|d1974-|eeditor.
830 0 Early English Text Society (Series).|pOriginal series ;
|v355.
