The Wycliffe New Testament 1388: An Edition in Modern Spelling with an Introduction, the Original Prologues and the Epistle to the Laodiceans

I reviewed the British Library’s edition of Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament for our sister Library Review (Vol. 50 No. 4 pp. 207‐208); now from the same source, and again in collaboration with the Tyndale Society, we have a new edition of an even earlier English translation. Despite the name, John Wycliffe did not make the translation himself but it was the work of his followers, the Lollards, in the later fourteenth century. Their motives seem unexceptional – even obvious – today, to make the Bible as the source of Christianity available to all who could and would read...