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viii "Legenda" of Jacobus de Voragine, appearing about the middle of the century, was hailed as "aurea," as "golden" amid the baser metal of all other such repertories.

Of its history more will be said in the subsequent biographical introduction. Its original Latin text (we may here add) is to be found in multitudinous manuscript copies and early printed editions in all the great libraries of the United Kingdom and the Continent; a convenient modern text is that of Graesse, printed at Breslau in 1890.

GEORGE V. O'NEILL