How long does it take to read The Golden Legend?
Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton
The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton takes about 13 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1476. 726 pages, about 199,650 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 96 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Among the books which afford us an insight into the popular religious thought of the middle ages, none holds a more important place than the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend. The book was compiled and put into form about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, who laid under contribution for his purpose the Lives of the Fathers by S. Jerome, the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, and other books of a like kind; while for the lives of the saints more nearly approaching his own age he appears to have industriously collected such legends as he could meet with, whether in manuscript or handed down by oral tradition."--Prologue.
Subjects: Christian saints, Biography, Legends, Saints, Heiligen, Catholic Church
