Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea
Subtitle: that is to say in Englysshe the Golden legende : for lyke as passeth golde in valewe al other metallys, soo thys legende excedeth all other bokes
Contributors: Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?; Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492; Jean, de Vignay, approximately 1284-; Brown, Sophia Augusta, 1825-1909
Publisher: Wynkyn de Worde
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Westminster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Saints; Legends
Other titles: Golden legende.
Work titles: Legenda aurea
Notes: Signatures: pi⁴ a-e⁸ F² f-z⁸ [et]⁸ [us]⁸ e[n]⁴ A-Y⁸ 2a-2e⁸ 2f⁶ 2g⁴

Translated by William Caxton from the French of Jean de Vignay, first published by Caxton, Westminster, 1483, with the addition of the lives of English saints from a Middle English version, and a section of Old Testament heroes (omitted in this edition)

Numerous errors, including nos. xl-xli and CCCxl repeated in foliation.

Colophon reads Thus endeth the lege[n]de named in latyn legenda aurea ... which werke I dyde accomplisshed at the commaundeme[n]te and requeste of the noble and puyssaunte erle [and] my specyal good lord Wyllyam of Arondel, and now hane renewed [and] fynysshed it at Westmestre the xx day of May, the yere of our lord MCCCClxxxxiii, and in the viiii yere of the reygne off kynge Henry the vii, by me Wyllyam Caxton [but actually printed by Wynkyn de Worde]

Includes index.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I:23-24.

Copinger, 6474.

Proctor, 9691.

Goff, J-150.

De Riccii, S.  Caxton, 107.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ij00150000.

Walsh, J.E.  15th cent. printed books, 3993.

STC (2nd ed.), 24875.

Duff, E.G.  15th cent. Eng., 410.

English short title catalogue S109642.