Wycliffe's Bible

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Wycliffe’s Bible (ENGWYC)

Overview

Wycliffe’s Bible is the name now given to a group of Bible translations into Middle English that were made under the direction of John Wycliffe. They appeared over a period from approximately 1382 to 1395. There are 250 Wycliffe Bibles that survive today in various degrees of completeness. It is estimated that about twenty-one contain or might have had the complete Wycliffe Bible, also known as the English Wycliffite Bible or the Lollard Bible. There are 89 Wycliffe Bibles that contain just the New Testament. There are fifteen Wycliffe Bibles that have just the four Gospels of the New Testament. There are four copies of the Wycliffe Bible that comprise only the letters from the Apostles to the Christians commonly called the Epistles.

Language and People

Middle English (1100-1500) (ISO 639-3: enm). [Glottolog: midd1317]

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