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LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 375 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read) , in its
primary
  meaning the history or
life
 -story of a saint, and so applied to portions of Scripture and selections from the lives of the saints as read at divine service. The
statute
  of 3 and 4
Edward
  VI. dealing with the abolition of certain books and images (1549), cap. ro, sect. 1, says that " all bookes . . . called processionalles, manuelles, legends . . . shall be . . . abolished." The "
Golden
  Legend," or Aurea Legenda, was the name given to a
book
  containing lives of the saints and descriptions of festivals, written by Jacobus de Voragine, archbishop of Genoa, in the 13th
century
 . From the
original
  application of the word to stories of the saints containing wonders and miracles, the word came to be applied to a story handed down without any
foundation
  in history, but popularly believed to be true. " Legend " is also used of a writing, inscription, or motto on coins or medals, and in connexion with coats of arms, shields, monuments, &c.


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