Woodcut from legenda sanctorum zainer augsburg 1474. The Golden Legend (Latin: Legenda sanctorum) a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that became a late medieval bestseller. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived.

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Woodcut from legenda sanctorum zainer augsburg 1474. The Golden Legend (Latin: Legenda sanctorum) a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that became a late medieval bestseller. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived.

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