Legenda Emas Untuk cantata Arthur Sullivan lihat cantata Latin Legenda aurea atau Legenda sanctorum adalah sebuah kumpul

Legenda Emas (Latin: Legenda aurea atau Legenda sanctorum) adalah sebuah kumpulan hagiografi karya Beato Jacobus de Varagine yang banyak dibaca di Eropa pada akhir Abad Pertengahan. Lebih dari seribu manuskrip dari teks tersebut masih ada. Karya tersebut tampaknya dikompilasikan pada sekitar tahun 1260, meskipun teks tersebut ditambahi sepanjang berabad-abad.

Legenda Aurea, sekitar tahun 1290, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Firenze

Cerita Santo Gregorius dan naga adalah salah satu cerita orang kudus yang dikisahkan dalam Legenda Emas.

Referensi sunting

Hilary Maddocks, "Pictures for aristocrats: the manuscripts of the Légende dorée", in Margaret M. Manion, Bernard James Muir, eds. Medieval texts and images: studies of manuscripts from the Middle Ages 1991:2; a study of the systemization of the Latin manuscripts of the Legenda aurea is B. Fleith, "Le classement des quelque 1000 manuscrits de la Legenda aurea latine en vue de l'éstablissement d'une histoire de la tradition" in Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, ed. Legenda Aurea: sept siècles de diffusion", 1986:19-24
An introduction to the Legenda, its great popular late medieval success and the collapse of its reputation in the 16th century, is Sherry L. Reames, The Legenda Aurea: a reexamination of its paradoxical history, University of Wisconsin, 1985.

Pranala luar sunting

The Golden Legend — William Caxton's Middle English version (not quite complete).
Wikisource text with missing page from St. Paul supplied.
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Legends of the Saints". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Illustrations of The Golden Legend from the HM 3027 manuscript of Legenda Aurea from the Huntington Library 2011-09-28 di Wayback Machine.
William Caxton's version (complete)^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}.

[1] Hilary Maddocks, "Pictures for aristocrats: the manuscripts of the Légende dorée", in Margaret M. Manion, Bernard James Muir, eds. Medieval texts and images: studies of manuscripts from the Middle Ages 1991:2; a study of the systemization of the Latin manuscripts of the Legenda aurea is B. Fleith, "Le classement des quelque 1000 manuscrits de la Legenda aurea latine en vue de l'éstablissement d'une histoire de la tradition" in Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, ed. Legenda Aurea: sept siècles de diffusion", 1986:19-24

[2] An introduction to the Legenda, its great popular late medieval success and the collapse of its reputation in the 16th century, is Sherry L. Reames, The Legenda Aurea: a reexamination of its paradoxical history, University of Wisconsin, 1985.