No illustration to the Wycliffe New Testament featured in the Nottingham catalogue, but reproduced here is his portrait as seen in a copy that in 2006, at Sotheby’s, made £6000 as part of the Macclesfield Library collection of Bibles
A 1731, first printed edition of Wycliffe’s 14th century English version of the New Testament was bid to a record £10,000 against an estimate of £200-300 in a recent Nottingham auction.
Part of a Mellors & Kirk (20% buyer’s premium) sale of May 10, this rare edition, limited to just 160 copies, was edited by John Lewis from two early 15th century manuscripts of John Wycliffe’s translation into English of the New Testament, originally completed in 1388.