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East Syrian Daily Offices (Maclean translation)

English translation by A. J. Maclean, from East Syrian Daily Offices , translated from the Syriac by Arthur John Maclean, with introduction, notes and indices, and an appendix containing the lectionary and glossary (London: Rivington, Percival and Co., for the Eastern Church Association, 1894); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1894 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Maclean’s long introduction, his notes and the readings of the manuscripts, the abbreviations and errata, the indices to the psalms, the kalendar, the lectionary and the glossary are also left out, and so are the marginal Scripture references printed in the text. The footnotes at the foot of each page are cut off, and a few that the machine reading could not tell from the text may remain. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1894 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The East Syriac Office for the Administration of Holy Baptism (Badger translation)

English translation by G. P. Badger, from The Nestorians and their Rituals , by the Rev. George Percy Badger, volume 2 (London: Joseph Masters, 1852); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1852 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Badger’s long essays on the beliefs and history of the Church of the East, the other chapters of this volume, the appendices and the index are also left out. Only the translated service is given here, with the directions to the priest and deacon that Badger prints in the text. Badger’s notes on the Chaldean (Roman Catholic) changes to the service and his passages on the olive oil used in baptism, printed after the service, are also left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1852 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The East Syriac Order for the Burial of Priests (Badger translation)

English translation by G. P. Badger, from The Nestorians and their Rituals , by the Rev. George Percy Badger, volume 2 (London: Joseph Masters, 1852); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1852 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Badger’s long essays on the beliefs and history of the Church of the East, the other chapters of this volume, the appendices and the index are also left out. Only the translated service is given here, with the directions to the priest and deacon that Badger prints in the text. Badger’s notes on the Chaldean changes and on the burial of children are also left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1852 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Liturgy of the Syrian Jacobites, including the Anaphora of Saint James (Brightman translation)

English translation by F. E. Brightman, from Liturgies Eastern and Western , edited by F. E. Brightman, volume 1, Eastern Liturgies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1896 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Brightman’s long introduction, his footnotes and the Greek liturgies and other rites of the volume are also left out, and the corrections printed in his list of addenda are not applied. The numbers in the margin that count the lines, and the small numbers that name the manuscripts or books he took each bracketed addition from, are removed, but his square brackets and braces are kept. The Scripture quotations that he prints in capital letters are set here in ordinary type. Where he prints the deacon’s litany in a column beside the priest’s prayer (in the intercession, the fraction and the communion), the two are given one after the other. The names of the speakers, which he prints in italics, and his directions to the priest are shown as small headings.No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1896 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Liturgy of Malabar (Neale translation)

English translation by J. M. Neale, from The Liturgies of S. Mark, S. James, S. Clement, S. Chrysostom, and the Church of Malabar , translated, with introduction and appendices, by John Mason Neale (London: J. T. Hayes, 1859); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1859 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Neale’s introduction, appendices and numbered notes are also left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1859 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Anaphora of the Ethiopic Church Ordinances (Brightman translation)

English translation by F. E. Brightman, from Liturgies Eastern and Western , edited by F. E. Brightman, volume 1, Eastern Liturgies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1896 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Brightman’s introduction to the Egyptian Rite, his footnotes (which give the readings of the manuscripts) and the Greek liturgy of Saint Mark are also left out, and the corrections printed in his list of addenda are not applied. The numbers in the margin that count the lines are removed, but his square brackets and braces are kept. The Scripture quotations that he prints in capital letters are set here in ordinary type. The names of the speakers and his directions to the priest, which he prints in italics, are shown as small headings. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1896 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Ethiopic Liturgy, including the Anaphora of the Apostles (Brightman translation)

English translation by F. E. Brightman, from Liturgies Eastern and Western , edited by F. E. Brightman, volume 1, Eastern Liturgies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1896 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Brightman’s introduction to the Egyptian Rite, his footnotes (which give the readings of the manuscripts) and the Greek liturgy of Saint Mark are also left out, and the corrections printed in his list of addenda are not applied. The numbers in the margin that count the lines are removed, but his square brackets and braces are kept. The Scripture quotations that he prints in capital letters are set here in ordinary type. The names of the speakers and his directions to the priest, which he prints in italics, are shown as small headings. The readings of the other manuscripts that Brightman gives in his notes are not shown, so the small letters that point to them are taken out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1896 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Ethiopic Liturgy: the Ordo Communis and the Anaphora of the Apostles (Mercer translation)

English translation by S. A. B. Mercer, from The Ethiopic Liturgy: its Sources, Development, and Present Form , by Samuel A. B. Mercer (Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Co.; London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., 1915; the Hale Lectures of 1914–15); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1915 edition from the University of Toronto library at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Mercer’s six lectures, his Greek reconstruction of the fifth-century liturgy of Saint Mark, the Ethiopic (Ge’ez) text of the manuscript he used, the notes on that text and the indexes are left out. The book gives a full translation of only this one anaphora; of the other thirteen anaphoras of the Ethiopic Church it translates only the words of institution, in a table in the sixth lecture, and these are not included here. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1915 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Roman Canon of the Mass in Modern English

English. A modern English version prepared for SermonIndex with the help of artificial intelligence, working from the Latin text of the Gelasian Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae) as edited by H. A. Wilson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894), and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. The Latin text is in the public domain. The manuscript gives only the first and last words of the Lord’s Prayer, as the note in the text says. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mozarabic Collects (Hale translation)

English translation by Charles R. Hale, from Mozarabic Collects, translated and arranged from the ancient liturgy of the Spanish Church by the Rev. Chas. R. Hale, S.T.D., with a preface by the Rt. Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe (New York: James Pott, 1881); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan from Princeton University Library, digitised by Google, at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Bishop Coxe’s preface and Hale’s preface and appendix are also left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1881 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (Warren)

English text by Frederick E. Warren, from The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church by F. E. Warren (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan from the University of Toronto library at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the author’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Warren’s footnotes (his references to the sources, with the Latin of the passages he quotes), the lists of sections at the head of the chapters, the preface, the Greek words, and the indexes are also left out. His third chapter, which prints the Latin fragments of the Celtic service books and the Stowe Missal with notes, is not given here. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The book was published in 1881 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Stowe Missal: Warner’s Introduction

English text by George F. Warner, from The Stowe Missal: MS. D. II. 3 in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin , edited by George F. Warner, volume 2 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1915; Henry Bradshaw Society 32); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan from the University of Toronto library at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the author’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. The plates and Warner’s footnotes are also left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The book was published in 1915 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Treatise on the Mass in the Stowe Missal (Stokes and Strachan translation from the Old Irish)

English translation by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, from Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus , edited by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, volume 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 252, as reprinted in The Stowe Missal , edited by George F. Warner, volume 2 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1915); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan from the University of Toronto library at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Warner’s notes are also left out; the Latin words in the treatise are kept as in the translation. The three spells in the Old Irish that follow it in the manuscript, with gaps where the manuscript is damaged, are given at the end. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1903 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.