Wycliffe, John mid 1320s-1384

John Wycliffe (pronounced /ˈwɪklɪf/; also spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe) (mid-1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English theologian, lay preacher, translator and reformist. Wycliffe was an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. His followers are known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement which preached a legalistic Gospel. He is considered the founder of the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation (for this reason, he is sometimes called "The Morning Star of the Reformation"). He was one of the earliest opponents of papal authority influencing secular power.

Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible in the common tongue. He completed his translation directly from the Vulgate into vernacular English in the year 1382, now known as the Wycliffe Bible. It is believed that he personally translated the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; and it is possible he translated the entire New Testament, while his associates translated the Old Testament. Wycliff's Bible appears to have been completed by 1384, with additional updated versions being done by Wycliffe's assistant John Purvey and others in 1388 and 1395.

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Biblia pauperum, : conteynynge thirty and eight wodecottes, illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe Oure Blessid Lord & Saviour Jhesus Crist, with the proper descrypciouns thereof extracted from the originall texte offe Iohn Wiclif ... (1885)
The originals ... which have been used for the reductions which illustrate this volume [were exhibited, together with a volume of impressions, at the Caxton celebration held in London in 1877] ... This ... series of original blocks were purchased about sixty years since at Nuremberg ... They cannot be recognized as belonging to any printed book, and the artist's mark, which appears on the 37th plate, is unknown to any bibliographyer ... It is ... probable that the blocks were thrown aside and never used ... till a lapse of nearly four centuries ... These blocks were used in the production of 'A new Biblia pauperum' ... of which 275 copies were issued [in 1877]"--Note by the printers.

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The lives of John Wicliff and of the most eminent of his disciples; Lord Cobham, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Zisca (1765)
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Wycliffe's - Three Treatises on the Church - dated 1384 - brought be Peter-John Parisis
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Wycliffe and the Lollards (1908) by John Charles Carrick (1860-1914)
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Wycliffe : an historical study ([19--]) by Dyson Hague (1857-1935)
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Life and times of John de Wycliffe (1851?) (London Religious Tract Society)
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John Wycliffe and his English precursors ([1884?]) by Gotthard Victor Lechler (1811-1888)
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John Wycliffe and the first English Bible; (1880) by Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900)
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Wycliffe and movements for reform (1889) by Reginald Lane Poole (1857-1939)
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The life and opinions of John de Wycliffe, D. D., Volume 1 (1831) by Robert Vaughan (1795-1868)
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The life and opinions of John de Wycliffe, D. D., Volume 2 (1831) by Robert Vaughan (1795-1868)
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The Life of John Wycliffe, D.D. (1840) by Margaret Coxe
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The New Testament in English According to the Version by John Wycliffe ... (1879)
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Tracts and Treatises of John de Wycliffe: With Selections and Translations from His Manuscripts ... (1845) by Robert Vaughan
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John de Wycliffe, D.D. : a monograph with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British Museum, Lambeth Palace, and Trinity College, Dublin (1853) by Robert Vaughan (1795-1868)
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John Wicklif (1884) by W. L. Watkinson
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John Wiclif and his english precursors, Volume 1 (1878) by Gotthard Victor Lechler (1811-1888)
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John Wiclif and his english precursors, Volume 2 (1878) by Gotthard Victor Lechler (1811-1888)
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Select English works of John Wyclif, Volume 1 - (1869)
Sermons on the gospels for Sundays and Festivals
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Select English works of John Wyclif, Volume 2 - (1869)
Sermons on the Ferial Gospels and Sunday Epistles
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Select English works of John Wyclif, Volume 3 - (1869)
Miscellaneous Works
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A catalogue of the original works of John Wyclif (1865) by Walter Waddington Shirley (1828-1866)
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Writings of the Reverend and learned John Wickliff (1831)
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John Wyclif, last of the schoolmen and first of the English reformers ([1892]) y Lewis Sergeant (d. 1902)
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John Wiclif : his doctrine and work : an address at the Lincoln Diocesan Conference, on Thursday, October 16th, 1884 (1884) by Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885)
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Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal books, Volume 1 (1850) by John Wycliffe and His Followers
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Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal books, Volume 2 (1850) by John Wycliffe and His Followers
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Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal books, Volume 3 (1850) by John Wycliffe and His Followers
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Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal books, Volume 4 (1850) by John Wycliffe and His Followers
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The last age of the Church (1840) - Wycliffe, John, d. 1384, supposed author
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The life of Wiclif (1832) by Charles Webb Le Bas (1779-1861)
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Our own English Bible : its translators and their work, the manuscript period (1913) by William James Heaton (b. 1845)
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The dawn of the Reformation , Volume 1 (February 1901) by Herbert Brook Workman (b. 1862)
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Wiclif and Hus (1884) by Johann Loserth (1846-1936)
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Wiclif's Place in History : three lectures delivered before the University of Oxford in 1881 (1884) by Montagu Burrows (1819-1905)
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The English hexapla : exhibiting the six important English translations of the New Testament Scriptures, Wiclif, M.CCC.LXXX., Tyndale, M.D.XXXIV., Cranmer, M.D.XXXIX., Genevan, M.D.LVII., Anglo-Rhemish, M.D.LXXXII., Authorised, M.DC.XI. : the original Greek text after Scholz, with the various readings of the textus receptus and the principal Constantinopolitan and Alexandrine manuscripts, and a complete collation of Scholz's text with Griesbach's edition of M.DCCC.V : preceded by an historical account of the English translations (1841)
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Lutterworth, John Wycliffe's town ([1913])
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