## Information on cmpurvey.m3

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | Purvey's General Prologue to the Bible
> File name | cmpurvey.m3
> Manuscript | Harley 1666, British Library, London (pp. 1-57) and University Library Mm. II.15, Cambridge (pp. 57-60)
> Date | a1450 (a1397) (?Helsinki says c1388)
> Dialect | Southern
> Genre | Religious treatise
> 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 | Exhaustive
> Remarks | John Purvey was Wycliffe's secretary and "glossator". He was probably born around 1354 in Lathbury (one mile north of Newport Pagnell, about five miles south of Olney). He was ordained priest in 1377 and was a great scholar. From 1382 he lived with Wycliffe at Lutterworth, and after Wycliffe's death in 1384, at Bristol. Purvey is probably the author of the General Prologue and is generally believed to be a leader in the revising of the Early Version of the Wycliffite Bible that resulted in the Late Version (see the Old Testament and the New Testament (Wycliffite)).

### Helsinki Corpus information

> File name | CMPURVEY
> Text identifier | M3 IR RELT WYCPROL
> Text name | WYCL PROL
> Author | PURVEY JOHN
> Period | M3
> Date of original | 1350-1420
> Date of manuscript | 1350-1420
> Contemporaneity | NON-CONTEMP
> Dialect | SL
> Verse or prose | PROSE
> Text type | REL TREAT
> Relationship to foreign original | X
> Foreign original | X
> Relationship to spoken language | WRITTEN
> Sex of author | MALE
> Age of author | 40-60
> Social rank of author | PROF
> Audience description | X
> Participant relationship | X
> Interaction | X
> Setting | X
> Prototypical text category | INSTR REL
> Sample | SAMPLE X