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the Golden Legend
b. A collection of saints' lives; a legendary; esp. (with the) the collection written in or shortly after 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (usually called more fully the Golden Legend). Also (now rarely) in extended use with reference to similar collections of stories in non-Christian cultures.
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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xviii. l. 157 (MED) Meny manere men þer beoþ, as sarrasyns and Iewes, Louyeþ nat þat lorde a-ryght, as by þe legende sanctorum.
a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 344 (MED) Aftir bileve of hooli writt, þat telliþ of Petre and oþir apostlis..taken we biside bileve of many oþir þat þei ben seintis, as of Clement and Laurence and oþir þat þe Legende spekiþ of.
1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende Colophon f. ccccxliv Thus endeth the legende named in latyn legen[da] aurea, [that] is to saye in englysshe the golden legende.
1534 Prymer in Eng. Pref. sig. Bv The same iudgement and reformation is olso to be had of the bokes of passyons & sayntes lyues called legendes for in these are also many thynges added, wherof Sathan is author.
1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience iii. iv. sig. Divv This Parson..is well red, in that golden legend.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 84 I had rather beleeue all the fables in the Legend, and the Alcaron, then that this vniuersall frame is without a minde.
1649 tr. Alcoran p. ix They [sc. Mohammedans] invoke their Saints, of whom they have a large Legend.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ I. v. §5 The next Legend the world hath should be called Legenda Orientalis.
1740 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 29 June (1966) II. 198 A belief in all the miracles in the Legend.
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 173 This section would be as full of the miracles of musicians, as the Golden Legend is of those operated by the saints.
1889 Papers Amer. Soc. Church Hist. 1 p. xxi The Golden Legend of Voragine, written about 1270, had an extraordinary popularity.
1985 J. A. H. Moran Growth of Eng. Schooling 1340–1548 vi. 157 The 1415 and 1419 inventories of Lord Henry Scrope of Masham list more than fifty books, including..a legend of saints, and a life of St. Brigit.
1999 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 98 513 The story is not told in the Golden Legend and seems to be a late addition to the story of the saint.
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