Towards a new edition of the Wycliffite Bible

威克里夫圣经（WB）是第一个完整的英文圣经译本，由牛津神学家约翰威克里夫的追随者在14世纪末制作。译者的身份仍然不确定，但该项目的规模和学术性质表明，许多学术翻译，可能是在牛津的参与。虽然有学问和准确性，翻译被谴责和禁止在二十五年内其外观。立法颁布早在15世纪的大主教坎特伯雷托马斯阿伦德尔禁止作出新的版本和使用任何最近的翻译未经主教批准的文本和所有者。尽管如此，《WB》还是成为了传播最广的中世纪英语作品：现存250份完整或部分的副本。这也是最广泛的欧洲翻译的拉丁文圣经。新的手稿的发现和最近的研究文本的翻译已经过时的唯一完整版WB出版于1850年由J. Forshall和F。麦登毫无疑问，需要一个新版本，但目前这是一个遥远的目标，不仅因为它将涉及大量的工作，而且还因为仍然不清楚这种版本应该遵循哪些原则。学者们对于哪些手稿应该被整理并作为翻译的不同部分的基础文本，或者在许多手稿的空白处出现的注释如何与圣经文本相关并应该在一个版本中呈现，没有达成共识;其他以明显与WB相关的形式附在个别手稿上的设备的相关性也没有达成一致。拟议的调查旨在确定目前被称为早期和后期版本的翻译（据信反映了翻译人员最初制作英文文本及其随后的修订）是否代表了单个文本或一系列不同的编辑。它还旨在调查重要手稿之间的关系及其作为文本不同部分证据的价值。此外，拟议中的研究旨在通过研究翻译版本之间的差异，特别是在词汇方面，以及研究手稿中发现的设备，特别是边缘注释，更好地了解译者的工作方法。该项目还将探索编辑WB的可能方法，以及如何向用户呈现并使其易于理解。它将开发一种编辑WB的方法，并制作两本旧约（箴言和雅歌）和两本新约（罗马书和希伯来书）书籍的试用版，供印刷和在线展示。网络版将提供一个扩展框架，当其他圣经书籍的版本在未来创建时，或者当进一步的材料，如额外的图像或变体记录，被开发来补充试用版时。

The Wycliffite Bible (WB) is the first complete translation of the Bible in English, produced at the end of the 14th century by the followers of the Oxford theologian John Wyclif. The identity of the translators remains uncertain, but the scale and scholarly nature of the project suggest the involvement of many academic translators, probably based in Oxford. Though learned and accurate, the translation was condemned and banned within twenty five years of its appearance. The legislation promulgated early in the 15th century by the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel prohibited the making of new versions and the use of any recent translations without episcopal approval of both the text and owner. In spite of this, WB became the most widely disseminated medieval English work: it survives in 250 complete or partial copies. It is also the most widely evidenced of European translations of the Vulgate.The discovery of new manuscripts and recent research on the text of the translation have rendered obsolete the only complete edition of WB published in 1850 by J. Forshall and F. Madden. A new edition is unquestionably needed, but it is at present a remote goal, not only because of the amount of work it would involve, but also because it remains unclear which principles should underlie such an edition. There is no consensus among scholars as to which manuscripts should be collated and used as the base text for different parts of the translation, or how glosses that appear in the margins of many manuscripts relate to the biblical text and should be presented in an edition; the relevance of other apparatus attached to individual manuscripts in forms clearly related to WB is also not agreed upon. The proposed inquiry aims to establish whether what are currently known as the Earlier and Later versions of the translation (believed to reflect the translators' first efforts to produce an English text and its subsequent revision) represent each a single text or a series of different redactions. It also aims to investigate the relationships between important manuscripts and their value as evidence for different parts of the text. In addition the proposed research seeks to understand better the methods of the translators' work through the study of differences between versions of the translation, particularly in vocabulary, and the study of apparatus found in manuscripts, particularly marginal glosses. The project will also explore possible ways of editing WB and how such a large body of evidence can be presented and made intelligible to a user. It will develop a methodology for editing WB and produce trial editions of two Old Testament (Proverbs and the Song of Songs) and two New Testament (the Epistles to the Romans and Hebrews) books for print and online presentation. The online edition will offer a framework for expansion when editions of other biblical books are created in future or when further materials, such as additional images or records of variants, are developed to supplement the trial editions.