Legenda aurea (Golden Legend)
Title
Legenda aurea (Golden Legend)
Description
Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend was among the most widely reproduced late medieval texts. This manuscript reproduces an Italian translation of all 182 of de Voragine’s chapters. The present copy, which is dated in its anonymous colophon to 19 April 1459, predates the first printed edition of the work (Cologne, 1470) by over a decade. This volume bears several ownership inscriptions, including the from the library of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Ferrara from an early date. This foundation was home to the firebrand preacher Girolamo Savonarola (1452–98) who would serve as assistant master of novices from 1478 to 1482. Such a provenance is unsurprising, as the Golden Legend was used extensively by members of the Preaching Orders as a source book for constructing sermons.
Creator
Author: Jacobus de Voragine
Date
1459
Format
Manuscript on paper, 154 fols.
Identifier
University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 434
Coverage
Italy (Ferrara?)
Tags
Citation
Author: Jacobus de Voragine, “Legenda aurea (Golden Legend),” Making the Renaissance Manuscript, accessed December 3, 2024, http://makingrenmanuscripts.exhibits.library.upenn.edu/items/show/47.
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