A Glossed Wycliffite Psalter: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 554, ed. Michael P. Kuczynski. Early English Text Society O.S. 352. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 for 2018, lxxxi, 207 pp., 4 plates, 1 fig.

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Abstract: This is one of those critical editions that will withstand the passing of time and will serve in the next hundred years and more for future scholarship. Michael P. Kuczynski makes here available the Middle English commentary on the Psalms and Canticles as contained in the Wycliffite Bible, based on Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 554. The commentary consists of glosses, which are so extensive that they turn into chain-like series. The manuscript, however, is in critical conditions, so we are indeed in desperate need for a modern printed edition, especially since a digitization will not be forthcoming soon, if ever.