Caxton's Golden Legend, vol. II

Caxton's Golden Legend, vol. II
- ISBN 13:
9780192847676
- ISBN 10:
0192847678
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/25/2021
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
This second volume contains Caxton's most notable addition: a series of Old Testament legends, from Adam to Judith; it contains its own explanatory notes, glossary, and Index of Proper Names. It reproduces Caxton's original text with modern punctuation and capitalization, notes on content, syntax and lexis, a detailed glossary and an index of proper names. The notes provide detailed support for the view that Caxton's text is largely based on the work of an earlier unknown writer in English. They also demonstrate that writer's strikingly independent handling of a variety of sources, including the Latin Vulgate Bible, the Historia scholastica, the French Bible historiale, and the English Cursor mundi and the Wycliffite translation of the Bible.