Aurea (Golden), a .title given to certain works and documents: Bulla, the charter of Emperor Charles IV, establishing (10 January, 1356), in union with the estates of the empire, the law of future imperial elections. Catena, a collection of Scriptural commentaries made by St. Thomas Aquinas. Legenda, a collection of lives of saints (legende) by Jacopo da Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa in the thirteenth century. Summa Hostiensis, also Summa Archiepiscopi, a famous exposition of the principal parts of the Decretals of Gregory IX, by Fiacrces de Segusio, Cardinal of Ostia (d. 1271). Tabula, an index to the “Summa Theologica” of St. Thomas Aquinas prepared by Pietro da Bergamo.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Aurea
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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)
Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes
Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907. Public domain.