Legenda aurea latina, elementos apócrifos y tradición catalana

Abstract

A study on Iacobus de Voragine’s warnings and observations about the apocryphal nature of some narrative elements within his Golden Legend. According to G. P. Maggioni's theory, most of these observations were inserted by Voragine in his second redaction of the work (LA2), and here we analyse to what extent and in what ways they are cited in the Legenda Aurea’s Catalan tradition, taking as the study’s basis the most recent edition of the Latin text (Maggion 2007) and four of the most important manuscripts of the Catalan tradition. We aim to provide new data about the textual history of the Catalan Golden Legend and its Latin model; and also, to find out to what extent the Catalan tradition was concerned with pinpointing its apocryphal material for the audience’s benefit.