Wycliffe Bible circulates in Lollard hands
1385
A full English translation of the Vulgate, prepared by Wycliffe's Oxford circle and possibly by Nicholas of Hereford, began to circulate in manuscript among sympathetic gentry and priests. Owning a copy would soon become a capital offense under the Constitutions of Oxford. Several hundred copies survive despite the Lancastrian burnings of the next century.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.