登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The Golden Legend
Jacobus (de Voragine)
其他書名
Lives of the Saints
出版Catholic Way Publishing, 2015
ISBN17837943649781783794362
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HLIczQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"The golden legend is a collection of biographies by Jacobus de Voragine that became a late medieval bestseller. This collection of about 170 lives of the Saints was the most read book during the Ages of Faith, second only to the Holy Bible. It is one of the basis of much iconography. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived. It was likely compiled around the year of 1260, although the text was added to over the centuries. Initially entitled Readings of Saints, it gained its popularity under the title which it is best known. Over eight hundred 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. 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."--Page 4 of cover.