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Excerpt from The New Testament in Scots, Vol. 1: Being Purvey's Revision of Wycliffe's Version Turned Into Scots by Murdoch Nisbet
At the end of the fourteenth century there were two current versions of the Bible which emanated from Wycliffe or his followers. The first, which is ascribed to Wycliffe himself, though the greater part of the Old Testament was apparently the work of his companion, Nicholas of Hereford, was completed in or about 1382. It was a rough and very literal translation, closely adhering to the construction of the Latin original, while glosses or alternative renderings were occasionally introduced into the text. The need of a version in smoother and more ¿owing English was at once felt, and a new version, or rather a revision of the older ver sion, was undertaken by another disciple of Wycliffe, John Purvey, whose work was executed about 1388, or four years after Wycliffe's death, which took place on December 31, 1384.
There are extant numerous manuscripts of both of these Bibles, but for a long time their relationship was not clearly understood. An edition of the New Testamentxviii introduction.
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