Leaf from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, or Legenda Aurea, Late 14th Century. From the Life of Saint Paul the Apostle. Latin Manuscript on Parchment
Leaf from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, or Legenda Aurea, Late 14th Century. From the Life of Saint Paul the Apostle. Latin Manuscript on Parchment
Leaf from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, or Legenda Aurea, Late 14th Century. From the Life of Saint Paul the Apostle. Latin Manuscript on Parchment
Leaf from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, or Legenda Aurea, Late 14th Century. From the Life of Saint Paul the Apostle. Latin Manuscript on Parchment

Leaf from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, or Legenda Aurea, Late 14th Century. From the Life of Saint Paul the Apostle. Latin Manuscript on Parchment

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Title: Leaf from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, or Legenda Aurea, Late 14th Century. From the Life of Saint Paul the Apostle. Latin Manuscript on Parchment
Author: Jacobus de Voragine
Condition: Very Good

A late 14th century leaf from a manuscript of de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea, also known more commonly as the Golden Legend of the Passion of the Saints, a famed collection of 153 hagiographies (biography or life of a saint or ecclesiastical figure), widely read in Europe during the Late Middle Ages.

This leaf contains a section from the Life of Saint Paul the Apostle.

The leaf is written in Latin, using a gothic textualis script, with red rubrics, and a few initials strokes.

The manuscript itself was once used as binder’s waste, saved from a bookbinding, and used as a cover, judging by the fold marks, and inscribed title of Plutarch to one side.

This manuscript is written in a 29-line format.

One manuscript on parchment, 32 x 21 cm

This manuscript is in very good shape, with some rubbing and wear to the one side, the one which was exposed to the elements when repurposed as a bookbinding. Some of the text to that side has partially faded.