The Wycliffe New Testament was first translated out of the Latin Vulgate into English by John Wycliffe; however, this 1731 edition is the earliest printed edition of Wycliffe’s New Testament. The complete version of Wycliffe’s Bible, including the Old Testament, was not published until the mid-nineteenth century. Wycliffe was likely the first to translate the Bible into English; however, this feat was not appreciated by the Catholics and Englishmen of his time. After his death, he was declared a heretic, and his body and writings were burned. Within the text itself are portraits of Wycliffe and John Lewis, the publisher, as well as an eight-page glossary of terms and a few facsimiles from sixteenth century Bibles. There were only 160 copies of this edition issued.
