The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
at
Bridwell
Library
September 8 - December 12, 2009
The First Printing of the Wycliffite New Testament
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. London: John March, 1731.
The Wycliffite New Testament translation of the late fourteenth
century began to attract renewed scholarly attention in eighteenth-century England. Historians of the Middle English language
and of early English Protestantism considered this early vernacular translation an essential historical document of English
cultural heritage. The mezzotint facing the title page of this first printed edition of the Wycliffite text offers an imaginary
“portrait” of John Wycliffe (c. 1330–1384).
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