La Leyenda de los santos: orígenes medievales e itinerario renacentista

Abstract

This is an analysis of the trajectory of one of the two great families of our Medieval and Renaissance flos sanctorum. This family is formed of three works: the handwritten Compilación B (an abridged version of the Legenda aurea of Iacopo da Varazze), the Flos Sanctorum con sus ethimologías (an incunabulum of unknown date and printer) and the Leyenda de los santos, a work that thrived with several editions published since the end of the 15th century until 1579. This article explores the relationship between these three works and also analyses the specific affiliation of their principal manuscript copies and editions, concluding with how the texts have evolved from these first manuscript versions to their later printed forms.

Keywords

• Hagiography
• Ecdotics
• Printing
• Incunabula
• Iacopo da Varazze
• Legenda aurea
• Compilación B
• Flos Sanctorum con sus ethimologías
• Leyenda de los santos.