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Wyclif's Bible (St Mark 15:33-41 Late Fourteenth Century (British Museum, Add MS 15,580)
The earlier Wyclif translation, which was completed about the year 1382.
PLATE XLII. WYCLIF'S BIBLE, the earlier version, of which the New Testament was completed about the year 1380, and the Old Testament in 1382. The MS. from which the plate is taken is now in the British Museum and is one of the earliest in existence, the style of the writing justifying us in placing it before the close of the fourteenth century. Alternative renderings of different passages are underlined in the text.
Wyclif was assisted by others in his translation, and notably by Nicholas Hereford in the Old Testament. The New Testament is attributed to Wyclif himself. The whole version is a translation from the Latin Vulgate. The later Wycliftte version was the work apparently of John Purvey, a friend and follower of Wyclif, who commenced it after his master's death and completed it about the year 1388.
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