Legenda aurea
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Author: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Use for: Golden legend
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Legenda aura [incomplete] by Jacobus da Varagine
part
Identifier: MS 89/ff. 90r-101v
Contents
This section of the manuscript contains an extract of Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend), a compilation of biographies of saints, or hagiographies, widely read in the late Middle Ages. The text was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus da Varagine (c. 1230-1298), an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.ContentsText: starts imperfectly on f. 90r with the following...
Dates:
12th-14th century