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The Influence of the Golden Legend on pre-Reformation Culture History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2009

Ernest Gushing Richardson
Affiliation:
Associate Professor and Librarian of the Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn.

Extract

The point of this essay is that this, work of Voragine is the occasion of certain phenomena which have been accounted for on the ground of other influences or passed by as having no explainable ground.

It is introduced as an illustration of the influence of literary works in forming historical conditions and the need of a knowledge of a work itself and the quality of its influence in forming a proper understanding of the circumstances of a given period.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Church History 1889

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page 238 note 2 Tiraboschi, , Storia della lett. ital., iv.(1823), 233.Google Scholar

page 238 note 3 Fabricius, Tiraboschi, etc.

page 238 note 4 Cave, , Hist, lit., 2 (Oxen. 1743), 334Google Scholar. et al. It is undoubtedly, correct, though some prolong even to 1312.

page 238 note 5 “Tempore interregni ante A. 1273.” Fabricius, Salutaris lux evangelii (Hamburg, 1731), p. 214.Google Scholar

page 238 note 6 Fabricius, Echard et Quetif, Brunet, etc.

page 238 note 7 There is a ms. at Le Mans dated 1290, so entitled in Haenel col. 202. There are many mss. of the 13th century still extant, showing already a distribution over all Europe.

page 239 note 1 La legende dorée. Tr. par Gustav Brunet. Paris, 1843.Google Scholar

page 239 note 2 Panzer, Mattaire, Graesse, Brunet, Fabricius, Cave, many library, auction, and antiquarian catalogues, etc., etc., etc.

page 239 note 3 E.g. Quaritch. Catal. (1888), Nos. 36, 112 and 36, 188.Google Scholar

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page 239 note 5 I fancy this may be found closely related to Voragine, but have had no opportunity to examine.

page 240 note 1 A critical bibliographical treatment of the material is impossible here. The following tables will give an accurate enough general idea, though undoubtedly some editions have been wrongly admitted, as some of those not included may have been wrongly dropped. By Years: 1472 (?), 1474 (3), 1475 (3), 1476 (2), 1477 (2), 1478 (4), 1479 (3), 1480 (5), 1481 (6), 1482 (5), 1483 (8), 1484 (6), 1485 (6), 1486 (4), 1487 (5), 1488 (5), 1489 (2), 1490(3). 1491 (1) 1492 (3), 1493 (6), 1494(1). 1495 (2), 1496 (7), 1497 (6). 1498 (1), 1499 (3), 1500(3), 1501 (1), 1502 (1), 1503 (2), 1504 (1), 1505 (1), 1509 (1), 1510(2), 1511 (1), 1512(3), 1516 (2), 1518 (1), 1522 (1), 1524 (1), 1525 (1), 1526 (1), 1527 (1), 1533 (1), 1546 (1), 1554 (1), 1576 (1), 1585 (1), 1607 (1), 1843 (1), 1846 (1), 1850 (1), 1878 (1), s. a. mainly before 1500, (22). By Countries: Bohemia (3), England (8), France (34), Germany (39), Italy (27), Netherlands (24), Switzerland (9), s. 1. (15?).

page 240 note 2 Cf. Aspland's ed. of Caxton's edition (1878), p. 36, showing that Caxton printed more than his usual number. The unusual number of extant editions and copies goes to indicate the same thing. There are, e. g., not far from a dozen copies of various editions in the Boston Public, Harvard University, and Union Theological Seminary (N. Y.) Libraries.

page 240 note 3 Blades, , Caxton (1882), 264.Google Scholar

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page 243 note 4 II magico prodigoso.

page 243 note 5 Mather, Cotton, in his “Wonders of the Invisible World,” 3d ed., 1693, repr. 1865, p. 443Google Scholar, quotes from “Dr. Horneck's” account of what happened at “Mobra in Sweedland,” bringing out in black letter “where it agrees with what happened among ourselves.”

“The first thing … was to give themselves to the Devil. … Hereupon they cut their fingers, and with Blood writ their Names in his Book.” The “book” and the “contract with Satan” continually appear in the proceedings.

page 243 note 6 The idea of compact is frequent here, but I have not been able to verify a statement that the stories of “Sieur Nann and the Korigan” and “Sir Olaf and the Erlking's Daughter” belong to this class.

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page 246 note 1 At least, in any allusion I have been able to find, although I have examinee the text of all excepting S. Bonaventura.

page 246 note 2 In an Ave and as subject of a Miracle.

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