At end:' ... Here endith the Lives of Seintis that is callid in latynne Legenda Aurea, and in Englissh the Gilte Legend, the which is drawen out of Frensshe into Englisshe. The yere of oure Lorde M.CCCC. and xxxviij bi a synfulle wrecche ...' This work by Jacobus de Voragine begins in this English translation with 'knowliched that he was ouercome', in the Life of st. Anthony, and ends with ' The Life of Adam and of Eve. cap° c lxxxj°' (fol. 157) and 'The fyve wilis of Kinge Pharao' (fol. 160v).

The book is badly mutilated and has lost many leaves: mutilated are fols. 14, 29, 40, 41, 48, 62, 80, 101, 105, 116, 122, 128, 155, 157, 163, and margins only of fols. 22, 34, 49-50, 58, 63, 71, 74, 77, 97, 100, 112-3, 141, 143-4, 146, 158: losses are after fols. 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 73, 76, 125, 127, 134, 140, 145, 146, 156, and probably elsewhere. A modern index of saints etc. is on fol. 165. A full description of the MS. is in C. Horstmann's Altenglische Legenden, neue Folge (1881), p. cxxx.

'[B]e hit remembryd that John Burton citizen and mercer of London past oute of this lyfe the xx. day of Nouember the yere ... Mill'. cccc. lx ... and the said John Burton bequethe to dame Kateryne Burton his douȝter a boke callyd Legenda Sanctorum ... and after hur decesse. to remayne to the Prioresse and the Couent of Halywelle [Holywell, in Shoreditch] for euermore, they to pray for the saide John Burton and Johanne his wife ...' ' E. Trotter' (17th cent.) is on fol. 8.