Der Heiligen Leben ('The Lives of Saints'), also known as Passional, was a German legendary, compiled by a Dominican friar from Nürnberg around 1400.
The 1502 edition had a print run of 1000 copies, an exceptional figure for the time.
[2] The collection originally contained 251 legends and became 'the most influential model for most of the vernacular legendaries of the fifteenth century',[3] and was 'unparalleled in its overall popularity in the whole of Europe ... Hardly a work of German literature was read by such a wide audience'.
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