SELECTED READINGS FROM WILLIAM CAXTON'S TRANSLATION OF THE GOLDEN LEGEND1

SAINTS
OLD TESTAMENT
NEW TESTAMENT AND APOCRYPHAL NARRATIVES

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NOTE 1 For an overview of the sources of Caxton's additions, deletions, and other changes see Sister Mary Jeremy, "Caxton's Golden Legend and Varagine's Legenda Aurea". The sources of the chapters from the Bible are studied in Blake, "The Biblical Additions in Caxton's 'Golden Legend'."