The English Apocalypse

A Fourteenth-Century Translation of the Book of Revelation from Columbia University, MS Plimpton Add. 03

Edited by Ethan Campbell

Book cover: The English Apocalypse

Paperback (Published)

(February 2025)

ISBN: 9781580446983

8.27 x 10.24 inches

Price: $29.95

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Hardback (Published)

(December 2024)

ISBN: 9781580446990

Price: $94.00

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PDF (Published)

(November 2024)

ISBN: 9781580447003

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A 14th-century Middle English translation of the Apocalypse


Before the Wycliffite Bible in the 1380s, one of the only complete books of the Bible to be translated into Middle English was the Book of Revelation. The English Apocalypse, translated from the French in the early 14th century, must have been well known to the later translators, as it appears in 18 extant manuscripts, sometimes alongside Wycliffite material. This edition reproduces, for the first time, a copy of the English Apocalypse, which actually replaced the Book of Revelation at the end of a Wycliffite New Testament.

Introduction
The Text
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Glossary
Appendix: the manuscript's Wycliffite Bible passages
Bibliography

  • Edited by Ethan Campbell