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Golden Legend
The ''Golden Legend'' (Latin: ''Legenda aurea'' or ''Legenda sanctorum'') is a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that became a late medieval bestseller. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived.〔Hilary Maddocks, "Pictures for aristocrats: the manuscripts of the ''Légende dorée''", in Margaret M. Manion, Bernard James Muir, eds. ''Medieval texts and images: studies of manuscripts from the Middle Ages'' 1991:2; a study of the systemization of the Latin manuscripts of the ''Legenda aurea'' is B. Fleith, "Le classement des quelque 1000 manuscrits de la Legenda aurea latine en vue de l'éstablissement d'une histoire de la tradition" in Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, ed. ''Legenda Aurea: sept siècles de diffusion", 1986:19-24〕 It was likely compiled around the year 1260, although the text was added to over the centuries.〔An introduction to the ''Legenda'', its great popular late medieval success and the collapse of its reputation in the 16th century, is Sherry L. Reames, ''The Legenda Aurea: a reexamination of its paradoxical history'', University of Wisconsin, 1985.〕
==A medieval bestseller==
Initially entitled ''Legenda sanctorum'' (''Readings of the Saints''), it gained its popularity under the title by which it is best known. It overtook and eclipsed earlier compilations of abridged legendaria, the ''Abbreviatio in gestis et miraculis sanctorum'' attributed to the Dominican chronicler Jean de Mailly and the ''Epilogus in gestis sanctorum'' of the Dominican preacher Bartholomew of Trent. Over eight hundred〔Number supplied by Reames 1985:4.〕 manuscript copies of the work survive, and when printing was invented in the 1450s, editions appeared quickly, not only in Latin, but also in every major European language. Among ''incunabula'', printed before 1501, ''Legenda aurea'' was printed in more editions than the Bible.〔Reames 1985.〕 It was one of the first books William Caxton printed in the English language; Caxton's version appeared in 1483 and his translation was reprinted, reaching a ninth edition in 1527. In 1900, the Caxton version was translated by Frederick Startridge Ellis, and published in seven volumes. De Voragine's original was translated into French around the same time by Téodor de Wyzewa.
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