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The Golden Legend
Jacobus de Voragine. The medieval best seller of saints' lives and feasts, in Caxton's English as edited by F. S. Ellis. Many of its stories are legends, not history. Read at Fordham or in the Internet Archive scans.
By Jacobus de Voragine. 7 editions, each linked at its source.
Reading editions & sources
- Fordham Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Temple Classics, 1900) · translator: Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 · Source
- Internet Archive scan, vol. 1 (London: J. M. Dent, 1900) · Source
- Internet Archive scan, vol. 2 (London: J. M. Dent, 1900) · Source
- Internet Archive scan, vol. 3 (London: J. M. Dent, 1900) · Source
- Internet Archive scan, vol. 4 (London: J. M. Dent, 1900) · Source
- Internet Archive scan, vol. 5 (London: J. M. Dent, 1900) · Source
- Internet Archive scan, vol. 7 (London: J. M. Dent, 1900) · Source
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