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).
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