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I just want to second Tom Izbicki's suggestion of the Ryan translation.
At least in English, it's by far the most reliable translation ever
published. It's not based on a thirteenth-century manuscript, of course;
but I doubt that matters much. Based on the limited research I've done on
this issue, I'd say that later copies of the Legenda often added chapters
on additional saints [as one can see from the listings in Fleith's
inventory of manuscripts] but didn't do much revising of the chapters that
were there from the start.
Sherry Reames
At 10:20 AM 8/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298.
> The golden legend : readings on the saints / Jacobus de
>Voragine ; translated by William Granger Ryan. [Legenda aurea. English]
> Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.
> 2 v. ; 24 cm.
>
>The most recent English version.
>
>Tom Izbicki
>
>At 09:37 PM 8/16/2001 -0300, you wrote:
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I´m wondering if you could help me. I´m a gaduate student in Brasil and my
>>research is about the Golden Legend. Would you know a good translation
>>from a XIIIth. century version? Or yet a bilingual edition? It could be
>>latin-french, latin-english, latin-italian or latin-spanish.
>>
>>Thank you a lot,
>>Carolina Fortes.
>
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