ABSTRACT
B r i t i s h Museum MS Royal 17. B . 1 contains a concordance to the Wycliffite New Testament, made by an anonymous compiler early in the fifteenth century. The complete MS will be published eventually, I have no doubt, but the nature of its contents is such that publication may be delayed for many years. While we are waiting, it seems to me desirable that scholars should have more ready access to that portion of the MS which is of greatest general interest; namely, the prefatory section, in which the complier explains how his concordance was put together and how it should be used. My own commentary was originally intended to be very brief, just enough to place the text in its fifteenth-century context. I t has grown by accretion (as the interests of various types of scholarship occurred to me) until it is considerably longer than the text; but even in this expanded state, it is not intended as a complete discussion of all the questions raised by the con cordance.1
