Publications of the Caxton Society
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sotheran, Henry and Co
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacobus (de Voragine)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton. It is an English translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea (ca. 1267), a collection of legends for the feasts of saints (the Sanctorale) and other major days of the liturgical year (the Temporale). The Legenda aurea was one of the most popular and influential books in the later medieval Western world; it circulated widely, and was repeatedly translated into many vernacular languages. This volume reproduces Caxton's original text of the Temporale with modern punctuation and capitalization, notes on content, syntax and lexis, a detailed glossary, and an index of proper names. Caxton's complex combination of sources is given particular attention: the principal one was a little-known reworking of the French translation made by Jean de Vignay, but he also used the Latin original and a previous English translation, the Gilte Legende, and made some personal additions. The Introduction considers the structure of the entire book that Caxton created, but focuses on the Temporale and the set of Old Testament legends that will follow in volume 2. It discusses their sources and language, highlighting the differences between the first two volumes and the notable number of new words and senses. It also gives a detailed bibliographic account of this printing in its historical context and descriptions of all surviving copies.
Author: John Russell Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-07-30
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 3368121235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1871.
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Kuskin
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection, the first such work on Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books.
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 568
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 574
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