Abstract: The Légende dorée by Jacques de Voragine, a hagiographic compilation based on an assemblage of heterogeneous sources, functions as a means of mastering time for the compiler, the preacher, and the reader of the book. It weaves together a plurality of historical writings into a calendar, resulting in a highly symbolic product. The link with the apprehension of time is studied in certain manuscripts in which it is copied alongside historiographic texts.
