Italian chronicler Jacobus de Voragine compiles a…

Italian chronicler Jacobus de Voragine compiles a collection of fanciful hagiographies of all the saints venerated circa 1260.

Entitled Legenda Aurea, which translates from Latin as The Golden Legend, it is soon to become one of the most popular religious works of the medieval period.

(More than a thousand manuscript copies of the work survive, and when printing is invented in the 1450s, editions will appear quickly, not only in Latin, but also in every major European language.

It is to be one of the first books William Caxton will print in the English language, his version appearing in 1483.)