Ages, it had very little influence on the first English biblical translations of the reformation era such as those of William Tyndale (Tyndale Bible) and Miles Coverdale (Great Bible), as it had been translated from the Latin Vulgate rather than the original Greek and Hebrew. Consequently, it was generally ignored in later English Protestant biblical scholarship. However, due to the common use of surviving manuscripts of Wycliffe's Bible as works of an unknown Catholic translator, this version continued to circulate among 16th-century English Catholics, and many of its renderings of the Vulgate into English were adopted by the translators of the Rheims New Testament. Wycliffe's Bible in print The earliest printed edition, of the New Testament only, was by John Lewis in 1731. In 1850, Forshall and Madden published a four-volume critical edition of the Wycliffe Bible containing the text of the earlier and later versions in parallel columns. Forshall and Madden's edition retains the letter yogh (ʒ) but replaces the thorn (þ) with the digraph th. In popular culture Jorge Luis Borges mentions Wycliffe's Bible in his short story "The Book of Sand", where he calls it the "Black-letter Wyclif", in reference to the Blackletter script used to write the publication. See also General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible List of most expensive books and manuscripts Notes References Further reading . . Wycliffe, John and John Purvey (2012), Wycliffe's Bible, A Modern-Spelling Version of their 14th Century Translation, with an Introduction by Terence P. Noble, Createspace, External links . Searchable by phrase or chapter/verse reference. . ; gives each book on a single page . . . . . Manuscripts of Lichfield Cathedral - Digital facsimiles of the Cathedral's Wycliffe New Testament, University of Oklahoma https://www.scribd.com/document/324581901/Wycliffe-Bible-Early-Version - Early Version as downloadable .doc file 1380s books Lollardy History of Christianity in the United Kingdom 14th-century Christian texts 14th century in England Bible translations into English Middle English literature