## Information on cmotest.m3

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | The Old Testament (Wycliffite)
> File name | cmotest.m3
> Manuscript | Royal 1.C.8, British Library, London (?)
> Date | a1425 (c1395) (Helsinki gives a1425 (a1382)?)
> Dialect | East Midlands (McIntosh et al. 1986: Buckinghamshire)
> Genre | Bible
> Edition | Forshall, Josiah and Frederic Madden. 1850. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the apocraphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers, Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted 1982 (New York: AMS Press).
> Sample | Genesis I.1-III.24, VI.1-IX.29,XII.1-XIV.20, XXII.1-XXII.19, Numbers XIII.1-XIV.45, XVI.1-XVII.13.
> Remarks | The revision of the Wycliffite Bible which resulted in the Late Version was probably led by, if not done by, John Purvey (see Purvey's General Prologue to the Bible).

### Helsinki Corpus information

> File name | CMOTEST
> Text identifier | M3 XX OLDT WYCOLD
> Text name | OLD TEST WYCL
> Author | X
> Period | M3
> Date of original | 1350-1420
> Date of manuscript | 1350-1420
> Contemporaneity | CONTEMP
> Dialect | EML
> Verse or prose | PROSE
> Text type | BIBLE
> Relationship to foreign original | TRANSL
> Foreign original | LATIN
> Relationship to spoken language | WRITTEN
> Sex of author | X
> Age of author | X
> Social rank of author | X
> Audience description | X
> Participant relationship | X
> Interaction | X
> Setting | X
> Prototypical text category | X
> Sample | SAMPLE X