- The Book of Kells. Illuminated Latin Gospels. 339 leaves. 13\” × 10\”. Housed at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- Caedmon puts Bible into verse c. AD 650/670. A paraphrastic metrical version of Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel.
- Bishop Aldheim (d. 709). Psalms. (Paris: 11th c.)
- Venerable Bede translates the Gospels c. AD 735.
- Golden Gospels. Alcuin of York. 8th c. France. (Cf. 6th c. copy of Ulfilas’ Gothic translation.)
- Bishop Eadfrith. Lindisfarne Gospels. AD 635. Aldred adds Early English (Anglo-Saxon) interlinear glosses c. AD 950.
- King Alfred the Great (d. 901). Psalms.
- Aelfric translates various Bible books c. 955–1020.
- Gospels. 10th c. (Regional Early English dialect.)
- Oron. The Ormulum. 13th c. (Paraphrase of parts of the Gospels and Acts.) Held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
- Richard Rolle (Yorkshire dialect in northern England, c. 1340) and William Shoreham (Kentish dialect in southern England, c. 1320) translate the Psalms into metrical verse c. 1325.
- John Wycliffe (alt. Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, Wickliffe) and co. translate entire Bible into English from Latin. 1382.
Bibliography | Early English Biblical Manuscripts
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